BBC Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music, 1Xtra and the Asian Network will be joining forces every Thursday at 9am for the BBC’s Great British Singalong, a mass singalong designed to lift the nation’s spirits.
Each week, the singalong will be dedicated to a different group deserving of celebration. The next singalong (Thursday 9 April) will be dedicated to the thousands of nurses working tirelessly around the country.
The BBC’s five popular music stations will come together in a multiway simulcast for thirty minutes, with each station bringing along one song that they think the public will love to join in with, wherever they are.
On Thursday 2 April, Greg James led the first singalong on Radio 1 with Dermot O’Leary (who was covering for Zoe Ball) on Radio 2, Lauren Laverne on 6 Music, Dotty on 1Xtra, and Harpz Kaur on the Asian Network.
Greg James says: “Well, despite the potential for an enormous technical disaster in trying to sync up five radio stations, it was a huge success. So much so that we’re going to do it again as it seemed to cheer so many people up!”
For the next singalong, Scott Mills will host on Radio 1, with Amol Rajan on Radio 2, Lauren Laverne on 6 Music, Dotty on 1Xtra, and Yasser on the Asian Network.
All the presenters will be broadcasting from their own, separate studios.
Listeners can join in with all the action on Thursday mornings by tuning in to any of the five stations from 9am, on the radio or on BBC Sounds, and by sharing their efforts on social media using the hashtag #UKSingalong.
