Sara Cox turns a Build-A-Bear breakup into radio gold
Sara and Beccy began by trying to describe a newspaper photograph of Nicole Scherzinger’s decorated bottom without quite settling on the correct vocabulary. The discussion spiralled into whether a bottom could have a front and back, whether it might be a body double, and the imagined existence of a Build-A-Bottom shop where customers could choose a colour, shape and even a sound effect.
That, somehow, led to Beccy’s story about a Build-A-Bear containing a former boyfriend’s voice. Her mum had opened the bear to remove the recording before it went to charity, only for the dying battery to make the message, “I’ll be with you forever”, increasingly unsettling. It was affectionate in theory and properly alarming in practice.
Sara was also deep into I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. She remained fascinated by the camp’s larger-than-life characters and had particular fun with Anthony Cotton’s food talk, turning his serious instructions for a warm rice salad into an imagined cookery-show commentary.
Stupid Street asked listeners which celebrity voice they would choose. Sara liked the idea of an Australian accent, Beccy wanted something huskier, and the answers ranged from Brian Blessed and Barry White to Sean Connery. One listener was asked whether he would like to be a “love horse”, then answered yes with impressive certainty.
The cover show was a generous mix of Sara’s TV obsessions, Beccy’s unhelpful personal history and the sort of tiny questions that became far bigger on air. A discussion that began with a photograph in a paper finished with a dismantled teddy bear and a serious consideration of celebrity voices.
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