Later that year, she was invited by the network's new controller Matthew Bannister to reinvent the lunchtime programme previously presented by Jakki Brambles.
He remained controller of Radio 1 alongside this until March 1998, when he was succeeded by Andy Parfitt.
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By 1995 the Britpop explosion had proved the success of Bannister's strategy: the bands he had championed a year or two earlier, when they were comparatively obscure and marginal, were now part of the mainstream, and Radio 1 was booming again.
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Although audiences declined dramatically, a new generation of DJs, including specialists such as Steve Lamacq (indie rock), Tim Westwood (hip-hop), Chris Goldfinger (ragga/dancehall) and Trevor Nelson (R&B), emerged and became highly popular with a younger audience, who were now catered for in a way they had not been previously.
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