Moyles: 'We don't get enough credit'

Chris Moyles has said that he and his team do not get enough credit for their Radio 1 show.

The presenter became the longest-running breakfast DJ on the station this morning and told The Mirror that it was a significant accomplishment.

Moyles said: "It's a hell of an achievement because Simon Mayo didn't do it, Chris Evans didn't do it and Mark and Lard certainly didn't do it. Even Steve Wright didn't last that long and we have beaten everybody.

"What is nice, because I am a radio guy, is that we have come up with our own format of speech radio with music and I don't think we get enough credit for being as good as we are."

He added: "When I started I told the controller, 'I want to go for ten years' and he said, 'Great, let's see what happens'. Well we have got this far and I think we are both still really excited.

"It was a bit of a gamble to put me on breakfast radio, but it was a calculated risk that has paid off. So if you ask me how long I can go on for, it is the same answer I gave at the start.

"As long as I want to do it and Radio 1 want me to do it, and the audience are happy with it, there is no reason to change it."