DJ Moyles - live from Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth students are more 'coherent' and 'attractive'

Chris Moyles, Radio 1's most popular and most controversial DJ, has swapped London for Aberystwyth for a day.

Friday's breakfast show was broadcast live from the mid Wales town where one of his team, Aled Haydn Jones, grew up.

The show had a distinctly Welsh flavour, with some of the programme actually spoken in Welsh.

After his three-hour stint on air, Moyles offered his impression of 'Aber' in his own unique way.

He said he thought university students in the town were more "coherent" and "attractive," and added that he thought the town was beautiful.

During the show, Moyles, 29, even attempted a little Welsh live on air saying shw mai (hello), diolch (thanks) and cig moch (bacon).

Students in Aberystwyth seem more coherent, at least some of them anyway Chris Moyles

Later the self-proclaimed saviour of Radio 1 signed autographs and chatted with university students who had gathered outside the BBC's studio in Aberystwyth.

The irreverent team's trip to mid Wales has been trailed all week on the show, with Aled presenting a series of guides to the joys of his home town.

Moyles said: "I haven't seen much of it (Aberystwyth) in the daylight yet because we arrived just as it was going dark.

"But from what I've seen this morning it's very beautiful."

On Thursday night, Moyles compered a pub quiz at Aberystwyth University's students' union bar.

It was a first for Radio 1 and featured 180 contestants in teams of four, with profits going to the tsunami appeal.

Listening figures have risen since Moyles took over the breakfast show

"It was very successful and popular," said the DJ, whose listening figures have risen to 6.7m.

"Students in Aberystwyth seem more coherent, at least some of them anyway, than others I've met and the people seem more attractive."

Moyles said he had considered staying in Aberystwyth for the weekend.

"If we'd planned it a bit better then we would have probably stayed up for the weekend, but it's so far out and we've got to get back."

During the show, Aled, 28, offered the team a selection of breakfasts in Welsh which they had to choose. One breakfast consisted of cereal with fried onions.

All the jingles were sung in Welsh for the show which Aled said had taken time to "get just right."

On Thursday before the show, Aled said: "Travelling up, Chris was speaking a bit of Welsh, he laps it up and loves the language. He has Irish roots so he's into all the Celtic things.

Moyles posed with female fans outside the BBC in Aberystwyth

"I was trying to teach Chris how to tell the time in Welsh so he could do it on air."

Aled, a former pupil at the town's Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, added: "We thought about Cardiff and Swansea and then everybody said, 'It's just got to be Aberystwyth,' because of my links with the town."

Moyles and his team have been having fun with Aberystwyth in the build-up to Friday's show.

On Thursday, the DJ asked if they had their passports ready for the trip to Wales and if his team had changed their money.