The BBC Radio 2 breakfast show presented by Chris Evans has lost almost half a million listeners in the past year, it has been revealed.
The station’s Today programme saw a surge with 7.66m listeners during the year’s second quarter compared to 7.13m just three months earlier.
Also increasing its audience is Radio 4 which reached its biggest audience since records began in 1999 (11.55m listeners a week).
Figures show that the DJ – who was named the BBC’s highest paid star just a few weeks ago – lost 370,000 listeners between the first and second quarter of 2017.