With the recent 70th anniversary of the chart, I had a request to list the BBC radio chart presenters over the years. The whole thing began back in 1955 and was initially a fortnightly show which was broadcasts on various days of the week including Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. It moved back to Sunday when Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman took over in September 1961 and remained on a Sunday until Jul 2015 when it moved to its current slot of Friday afternoons.

Here is a list of the regular presenters and there are 27 of them. I have not included the occasional weeks when various people deputised for somebody. Here is the list and their tenure dates:

The show was originally called Pick of the Pops and changed to the Top 20 when Tom Browne took over in 1972. It extended to a top 40 in November 1978 when Simon Bates was presenting and the first song played was Earth Wind and Fire’s Got To Get you Into My Life at number 40.

Presenter	Start Date	End Date
Franklin Engelmann	04-Oct-55	09-Dec-55
Alan Dell	06-Jan-56	15-Aug-56
David Jacobs	29-Aug-56	16-Sep-61
Alan Freeman	23-Sep-61	24-Sep-72
Don Moss	Sep-63	Dec-63
Tom Browne	01-Oct-72	26-Mar-78
Simon Bates	02-Apr-78	26-Aug-79
Tony Blackburn	02-Sep-79	03-Jan-82
Tommy Vance	10-Jan-82	01-Jan-84
Simon Bates	08-Jan-84	23-Sep-84
Richard Skinner	30-Sep-84	23-Mar-86
Bruno Brookes	30-Mar-86	23-Sep-90
Mark Goodier	30-Sep-90	01-Mar-92
Tommy Vance	08-Mar-92	08-Mar-92
Bruno Brookes	15-Mar-92	16-Apr-95
Mark Goodier	23-Apr-95	17-Nov-02
Wes Butters	09-Feb-03	30-Jan-05
JK and Joel	06-Mar-05	23-Sep-07
Scott Mills	07-Oct-07	07-Oct-07
Fearne Cotton & Reggie Yates	14-Oct-07	20-Sep-09
Reggie Yates	27-Sep-07	23-Dec-12
Scott Mills	30-Dec-12	06-Jan-13
Jameela Jamil	13-Jan-13	18-Jan-15
Clara Amfo	25-Jan-15	05-Jul-15
Greg James	10-Jul-15	08-Jun-18
Scott Mills	15-Jun-18	09-Sep-22
Jack Saunders	16-Sep-22