Best of Chris Moyles
Best of Chris Moyles was a weekly podcast from the BBC, launched on 28 July 2005 and featuring the highlights of The Chris Moyles Show from the last seven days. The podcast was originally part of the BBC's podcasting trial. It was created by Ant Danbury, known for having the voice of a child, and was released every Friday. As well as The Regular Version, The Enhanced edition had added pictures and chapters. Whilst The Chris Moyles Show was off air, and Scott Mills was presenting, a selection of old best bits were used in the podcast, however, if Vernon Kay is filling in, then the podcast went out as normal.
Download figures
This was the most downloaded podcast in the UK iTunes Music Store for much of 2005. However in December 2005 it was overtaken by the Ricky Gervais Podcast. It is currently downloaded by over a quarter of a million people a week. As of 1 April 2009 The Enhanced version is the 7th most downloaded podcast in the UK and the normal edition is at 30.
On the 24 April 2009 podcast, producer Aled Haydn Jones claimed that over 400,000 people now download the podcast.
'Free Download'
As of July 2011, the podcast was referred to as a Free Download and this was marked by the team on the 24 June 2011 episode.[1]