Pick of the Pops

That same year, he replaced David Jacobs as presenter of Pick of the Pops, which was then part of a Saturday evening programme called Trad Tavern, named after traditional jazz, which had a following at the time.

Denys Jones (producer 1961–72) and Freeman split the programme into four sections: chart newcomers, new releases, LPs and the Top 10.

[3] The programme attracted large audiences, as the BBC had "needle time" restrictions and could play relatively few commercially available recordings each week.

In 1989, Freeman returned to Radio 1 where the show featured three past charts each week; it was produced by Phil Swern until March 1992 and by Sue Foster for the rest of 1992.

[6] Pick of the Pops returned to the BBC as an independent production by Unique Broadcasting on BBC Radio 2 on 5 April 1997, with Freeman now counting down two archive charts each Saturday afternoon, featuring the top 10s and interspersing trivia about the records, again researched by producer Swern.

Due to poor health, Freeman retired from radio broadcasting after presenting his last edition of the show on 1 April 2000.

Goodier returned to the show to take over from Wright on a permanent basis from 6 July 2024, following his decision to leave Greatest Hits Radio.

[11] Goodier's first show featured 1986 and 1998, and saw the return of listener messages being read out (although this was dropped again after a few weeks), as well as continuing to be live.