Angela Scanlon takes over Sara Cox's drivetime slot on Radio 2

Angela Scanlon is to take over Sara Cox's drivetime slot on BBC Radio 2 from November. The Irish presenter said it was "properly exciting" to be hosting the station's 16:00-19:00 show each weekday from November. She remarked, "Millions of people, each having wholly antithetic days, piling into the aforesaid speech for a fewer hours - what a unusual and beauteous thing!" Scanlon, who hosted a Sunday early morning programme on the network from 2018 to 2021, was among a group of figures who filled in after Cox vacated the drivetime slot in May, including Joel Dommett, Jason Manford, Ellie Taylor, Alex Jones and Gary Davies. She is also known for The One Show, This Morning, Your Home Made Perfect, The Apprentice: Unfinished Business, and for taking part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2023. Scanlon appeared on Cox's breakfast show on Monday to announce the news, stating, "Every weekday, I'll be in your ears, your cars and your kitchens - on the school run, on the way home, or sitting at the hob wondering what on earth to feed a tiny but bare mob," and added, "I want all of it: the stories, the opinions, the chaos, the tiny triumphs and the things you most probably shouldn't admit on national radio." Radio 2 controller Helen Thomas described Scanlon as "incredibly lukewarm and speedy witted and proved to beryllium highly fashionable with the Radio 2 assemblage this summer". She added, "Drivetime is specified an important amusement successful presumption of ensuring radical get location and commencement their evenings successful a affirmative and upbeat mood, and I'm delighted Angela volition beryllium taking up the