Evans, who has taken over from Sir Terry Wogan in the slot, opened the programme following the 7am news with two Beatles tracks, All You Need Is Love and Got To Get You Into My Life.

The two Sixties tracks set the musical tone for the show and were quickly followed by Frank Sinatra's Come Fly With Me, just the kind of song Wogan's audience would have expected to hear. In obvious reference to fears that Evans now fronting the ...