Charlie Jordan 's primed and ready to offer a gentle welcome to the New Year for early morning listeners.

Since November, Radio 1 has been compiling the definitive list of its listeners' favourite record releases. Now, for the first time, hear the countdown uninterrupted and in full. Jo Whiley and Kevin Greening present the station's most comprehensive listener hit survey ever conducted.

Steve Lamacq wastes no time in anticipating the hits of 1997 by canvassing the opinions of a panel of Radio 1 experts.

The summer of 1996 is revisited as Mark Radcliffe and the Boy Lard present festival gems from Phoenix, Reading, T in the Park, and V96.
With performances from Dodgy, Radiohead, Manic
Street Preachers, Ash, Pulp and Kula Shaker.

Exclusive highlights of last night's Mount Universe event at London's Alexandra Palace, headlined by avant garde dance masters Orbital.

with 1997's best new music after midnight.