Sara Cox turns Bucklebury into Royal Wedding radio
Sara Cox was back in for Scott after the Easter break, with Beccy away and the team using her recorded laugh whenever a second voice was needed. Sara had spent the bank holiday hosting a barbecue for her partner Ben’s birthday, while trying to remain patient through what she described as an extended run of celebrations. The following weekend’s bigger party was still to come, so she was already looking forward to the point when the birthday was definitively over.
The Royal Wedding dominated the build-up to Friday. Sara seized on a television report from Bucklebury, Berkshire, Kate Middleton’s home village, because the reporter’s repeated use of “Bucklebury” and “Berkshire” made it sound like a determined exercise in alliteration. She delighted in the bunting, the village excitement and the prospect of a specially composed four-hour peel from the local bell-ringers.
That led to a call with Candy, who had once tried bell-ringing while visiting her father in Kent. Candy recalled failing to release the bell properly, ending up with badly blistered hands and walking away in tears. Sara turned what began as a quaint Royal Wedding diversion into a surprisingly painful cautionary tale about village traditions.
Gemma Cairney also checked in from the Coronation Street set, where she had been filming and meeting cast members including Michelle Keegan and Jack P. Shepherd. The conversation gave Sara room to confess her own affection for the soap, imagine a trip to the famous cobbles and ask the practical questions that matter most, such as which characters might join Gemma for fish and chips.
The show’s usual domestic silliness remained intact around the royal coverage. Sara discussed the annoyance of being breathed on by a partner, considered her mother’s campaign to rescue her neglected house plants, and entertained a listener’s dilemma over an egg or tuna-mayonnaise sandwich. It was a very Sara Cox way to open a week of major national ceremony: affectionate, chatty and repeatedly derailed by ordinary life.
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