[3] After joining BBC Radio 1 in June 2007 and presenting the early breakfast show from October 2007, on 21 September 2009, a new schedule was launched on Radio 1, and it was announced that James would move to an Early Afternoon slot; 1pm to 4pm - replacing Edith Bowman, who moved to the weekend breakfast slot.
After Sayers left the show to go on maternity leave, she was replaced by Taylor, and new Assistant Producer Travis Walby joined.
[7] It was at this point that Chris Smith's involvement in the show was reduced somewhat, with him no longer participating in links and features between 4:30 and 5:45, including Nerd Alerts and Rage Against the Answer Machine, or regularly speaking to Greg after the news.
The show has over five million listeners, and won a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2014 for 'Best Entertainment Programme'.
From 10 December 2012 for a week, James hosted his show from the BFBS Radio Studio in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.
In 2014, he put on G In the Park, a mini-music festival from the BBC in Glasgow, with tents where he and several listeners would sleep, and music acts would play on a stage.
In March 2015, following changes to the global release day for singles, Radio 1 announced its own changes to the Official Chart Show.
[9] In February 2016, Greg took part in the Gregathlon for Comic Relief, in which he completed five triathlons in five days in five cities.
[12] It was announced on 7 July 2018 edition of the podcast that Chris Smith would not be joining Greg on the breakfast show,[13] ending their on-air partnership after seven years.
In 2013, Chris Smith wrote a Christmas parody of the Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams song, Blurred Lines.