Private Frequency turns one: inside Minijack's most-requested show
Two hours, no talking, one continuous mix. How a late-night experiment became the show listeners plan their week around.
It started with a rule nobody expected to keep: no talking. No shout-outs, no track IDs read on air, no jingles. Just two hours of continuous music recorded live to the station desk, every night at eight.
A year later Private Frequency is the most-requested show in the Minijack archive, and DJ Stavros still hasn't broken the rule.
The silence is the point
“Radio has trained us to expect a voice every few minutes,” he says. “I wanted the opposite. When you take the voice away, people listen differently. They lean in.”
When you take the voice away, people listen differently. They lean in.
DJ Stavros
The format forced a different kind of preparation. Every episode is planned as one arc — a slow warm-up, a long middle, and a turn somewhere past the hour that regular listeners have learned to wait for.
What's next
For the anniversary, Private Frequency leaves the studio for the first time: a live broadcast from a rooftop in Exarchia on 24 October, simulcast on Minijack and streamed in full.