The Best of Chris Moyles is a weekly podcast from the BBC, launched on 28 July 2005 and featuring the highlights of The Chris Moyles Show from the last seven days. The podcast was originally part of the BBC's podcasting trial. It is created by Ant Danbury, known for having the voice of a child, and is released every Friday. As well as The Regular Version, The Enhanced edition has added pictures and chapters. Whilst the show is off air, and Scott Mills is presenting, a selection of old best bits are used in the podcast, however, if Vernon Kay is filling in, then the podcast goes out as it normal.
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This was the most downloaded podcast in the UK iTunes Music Store for much of 2005. However in December 2005 it was overtaken by the Ricky Gervais Podcast. It is currently downloaded by over a quarter of a million people a week. As of 1st April 2009 The Enhanced version is the 7th most downloaded podcast in the UK and the normal edition is at 30.
On the 24 April 2009 podcast, producer Aled Haydn Jones claimed that over 400,000 people now download the podcast.
As of July 2011, the podcast is now referred to as a Free Download and this was marked by the team on the 24 June 2011 episode.[1]