BBC Radio 1 - World's longest radio show - for charity!

[wossname]

If you live in the UK then you've probably heard about this already. Chris Moyles and Dave Vitty have been presenting a single radio show for more than 38 hours now - breaking the previous station record of 37 hours set in 1999.

They've raised over a MILLION POUNDS for "Comic Relief" - which is a charity that helps many countries around the world.

Since they've broken the 37 hour record, they are now aiming at the WORLD record - 52 hours on air without interruption!

You can check it out on Sirius radio if you're outside the UK. In the UK BBC Radio 1 is on 96-99 FM.

I've given them some cash over the last couple of days, why not help these guys out?

The website... http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/longestshow/

[TheBigB]

Good cause, but the other side of the channel has been doing that for years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Request

[abhijit]

I caught some sections of that show on Sirius XM. It will end when they reach the 1.5 million mark. Right now they are at 1.3 something.

[NickThissen]

Serious Request is a similar action where 3 dj's stay in a house for 6 days without food to make non-stop radio (of course they are not all on air non-stop, they switch it up). They've been doing it for 7 or 8 years now I think, they made over 7 million euros last year These things really work!

[wossname]

In the end they managed £2.4M, the last 0.5M was because Fearne Cotton said she'd do her show in a swimsuit on live streaming webcam.

Win,