Some people ‘save the best ’til last’.

At Absolute Radio, we’ve put on our Sunday best.

From 6am, Ben Jones moves from his late night week night slot to see you through the early mornings. Famous for his in-depth celebrity interviews, album plays, featured artists and specialist shows during the week – his Sunday show is all about what he loves the most, music. Whether you’re up early, a poor unfortunate that has to work on a Sunday, or you haven’t gone to sleep yet, Ben’ll see you through alright until 10.

That’s when Jo Russell pops up. If you’ve already heard her, you’ll know why you should listen. If you haven’t heard her yet, you really should do. She doesn’t like to mention her 27 award nominations, 17 award wins and 4 Sony awards – but she likes it when we do. Especially as her challenge this weekend is to find a date for Valentine’s Day, although it wasn’t her idea to call the feature ‘Haven’t had It in Ages’. There’ll also be Royal Family top trumps, Sunday Sinners, Rock n Roll Dinners, the Rugby 6 Nations tournament… of song! It’s a full three hours!

At 1pm, the Rock Falcon herself descends upon Absolute Radio – Leona Graham leaves the nest of Absolute Classic Rock to bring her distinctive voice to Sunday afternoons. She’ll be leaving behind the black leather, scorning the big hair and bats will no longer fear that their heads may be bitten off in a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. For all those people who are worried that we’re being cruel to small winged mammals, we aren’t – they ones Leona bites the heads off are made of liquorice and filled with jam.

At 5pm, it’s Christian O’Connell’s Choice Cuts. A two hour show just wasn’t enough to hold his best bits, so we’ve given him a whole extra hour. You’ll hear the best of his interviews, this week he’s only had Chris Martin and Noel Gallagher on his show, and he’ll be confused because he had to do the drive time show on Friday – because of ‘The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’ reverse day – although that lie in might have put him in a good mood. And of course, you might hear a little something about the snow. Apparently, there’s been the odd flake or two this week.

At 8pm, Geoff Lloyd takes off his Hometime hat and puts on his music hat. He tends to make the other presenters jealous, they don’t get given hats. His Xtreme show highlights the best new music on Absolute Radio – and the type of music you can hear all the time on our DAB and Digital sister station, Absolute Xtreme. And with bands like Jersey Budd popping into the Zoo this week to do an exclusive session, who knows what you’ll hear? Well, Geoff does. So do his producers. In fact, most of this stuff is planned on Friday so people can have the weekend off, but that means there’s no one to tell Geoff off if he mixes things up a little – so the only way you’ll be sure of what he’ll play is to listen.

Then, at 10 – it’s ‘The Sunday Show’ – usually hosted by Iain Lee, the man who gave Sacha Baron Cohen his first reporting gig as ‘Ali G’, and secretly lusted after by Daisy Donovan. Iain Lee, and his loyal team of fans who call in – remember, there’s no I in team, but two in Iain. This Sunday, however – stalwart of the Manchester radio scene, of late night channel four in the early nineties and most recently, the celebrity version of the reality TV show that makes George Orwell spin in his grave, Terry Christian, is standing in for Iain.

So – with the best bits of Christian, the new music for the upcoming week with Geoff – great music with Ben and Leona, a packed show with Jo and a mouthy Manc standing in for our own cheeky chappy radio innovator Iain Lee – we really our pulling out all the stops with our Sundays. It’s almost like we’ve put the best of Absolute Radio on Sundays. Sorry, we have put the best of Absolute on Sundays. It’s something old (sorry Christian), something new (sorry Jo), something borrowed (sorry Leona, we’ll give you back to Absolute Classic Rock when we’re done) but hopefully, Terry Christian won’t be too blue. We don’t want a huge Ofcom fine.

Would saying ‘Sundays and Absolute Radio are a marriage made in heaven’ be too cheesy a way to sign off?

Yes, we thought it would be too.