[Robert Williams]

I agree - it has improved but it feels very much like radio by numbers with just the very routine "Birthday game" and "Music Police" as regular features, along with the revived Wonder Years which feels more for the benefit of BBC Sounds.   It probably only needs one or two new features to land to improve things further , but feels like more effort went into the extra hour of the Sara Cox show than the two hours that precede it.   

Vernon on the other hand now feels like he owns that slot and that he's been on mornings for years, not weeks.  Especially like the Vernon Vault feature.

I think Scott's show is okay but not brilliant, but it does need some new features and it's time the Music Police were decommissioned, hearing listeners singing down the phone isn't great listening.

I find the extended Sara Cox show is more of a disappointment, though - it feels like it has content, all listener-generated, stretched very thinly over its three-hour running time.  It seems like the budget was not increased in line with the longer running time - the first hour contained just one short new feature, Totally Teavoted, plus one existing feature, the SARAs, moved from the following hour.  The rest of the content in the first hour merely comprises Sara reading out messages from listeners.

When you think how packed with features and guests Simon Mayo's excellent Drivetime show used to be, Sara's show feels empty in comparison.