James May defends fish finger sandwiches and Beccy shares a disastrous pop-star story
Scott was still enjoying a new habit of asking the audience to clap, cheer and holler at everyday achievements. The morning’s celebratory announcements included a listener starting homework and another moving out of her mum’s house, while Scott was especially pleased with himself for using the phrase “off of” in a serious BBC meeting.
Beccy then brought in a piece of gossip from an unnamed friend involving a very famous female pop star. The friend thought he was being led towards a romantic encounter after she took him by the hand into the ladies’ toilets, only to discover that she wanted to show him something much less glamorous in a cubicle. Scott was instantly obsessed with identifying the singer, while Beccy refused to give him the name and listeners began firing in guesses.
James May arrived to talk about Man Lab and a new book of practical life lessons. Scott described him as a “man hero”, despite May’s insistence that he was not especially tough and knew almost nothing about football. May said an episode in which he tries penalties showed just how poor he remained at the game, even after decades to improve.
The conversation settled on the things people assume are easy until they try to do them well: driving a bus, making tea, frying Spam and, most importantly to Scott, assembling a fish finger sandwich. May argued that the sandwich should not be made fancy, overfilled with bread or dressed up with posh ingredients. Its appeal was its basic, utilitarian nature, and he did not want Britain “brought to its knees by over-intellectualised pub food”.
The show’s mix of Beccy’s unrevealed celebrity anecdote and May’s extremely firm sandwich philosophy was exactly the sort of combination Scott enjoyed. One story became an on-air guessing game with no answer, while the other gave him an unexpectedly serious authority on how many fish fingers a proper sandwich should contain.
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