Verne Troyer surprised Scott
Scott had expected the Mini-Me actor to arrive with the sort of demands associated with a major celebrity visit. Instead Verne Troyer was warm and easy-going, happily taking photographs and looking around Radio 1.
Election day reached the street
With the American presidential election dominating the news, the show asked people in Britain who they intended to vote for. Plenty answered Barack Obama even though they were not American voters, which gave the team exactly the confusion they had hoped to uncover.
Celebrity politics met station imaging
The programme discussed the celebrity Don’t Vote campaign, which used reverse psychology to encourage participation, while Britney Spears appeared in newly recorded Radio 1 material. The episode captured how an enormous international political day could sit beside celebrity visits and station jingles without the show ever pretending to be a conventional current-affairs programme.
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