46 and I never got into R1 as a teenager. Capital Radio was usually on at home (Radio 2 when it was just my mother), Radio 4 on Sundays and I listened to a lot of Radio 3 for a while.
I listened to Tony Blackburn on Radio London for the soul music, Fluff Freeman for Pick of the Pops Take Two, Pat and Mick on Capital for the charts and, until his untimely death, Steve Walsh was my favourite DJ of all. Sunday night ironing of my uniform and GCSE coursework was always accompanied by his show.
After listening to (some, not all) relatively well informed, articulate presenters and a twat with a mullet and a song consisting of Whoop Whoop, the R1 stuff seemed a bit inane and shouty, which was a shame, because that meant I never noticed the more interesting stuff on late at night.
But some of my dislike was due to going to a R1 Roadshow thing with a bunch of mates and being completely looked through by a Big Name - who then barged through us to get to a pair of what looked like 11/12 year old girls who were wearing little denim
shorts and crop tops (as the younger girls did at the time) - even to us 15/16 year olds, male and female, in jeans and T Shirts, that creeped us out. Especially when the Crew member made us move along (Fuck off and stop bothering Big Name were the exact words) so the Big Name could continue talking with the girls in the production hut.
In any case, because I never got into listening to it, I never have.
These days, it's more Radio 3 and 4. Makes it easier to spot the links on Only Connect - especially as I normally go to sleep just after 1am, which means The Shipping Forecast is the last thing I hear each night. But I do zone out sometimes to tat on YouTube, which seems to carry generic, bland pop, so that's probably as close to R1 as you can get without actually listening to it, anyway.