[Joe]

Arielle is clearly sloshed and shouldn't have been put on air, but I'm pretty sure it didn't need to be announced on air "I'm turning your mic off" - just turn her mic off and introduce the next record and it saves embarrasment for everyone involved.

Totally agree that it’s made much worse by Hedges’s reaction – that drew attention to things and signalled to the listener that things weren’t okay. I think that laughing it off and ending the link quickly would have been better, though that’s hindsight and I also don’t know if there’s any history there. 

Radio 1 presenters diss the music more often than you think, certainly about the frequency some songs are played. It’s certainly not the unwavering support of most commercial stations. That wasn’t the issue here anyway.