Record audiences for Paige and Ball

Zoe Ball and Elaine Paige have both pulled in record audiences for their BBC Radio 2 shows, new figures show.

Ball added more than a quarter of a million weekly listeners to her Saturday afternoon show, pulling in 2.22 million in the last quarter of 2017.

This is a boost to the 1.94 million she drew in the third quarter of 2017 and the fourth quarter of 2016 and the highest audience ever for her show.

Paige drew 2.38 million to her Sunday afternoon show in the final quarter of last year, up from 2.19 million.