Tea bags for tired faces
The Breakfast schedule left Scott feeling that his face was falling off. He had followed an old remedy by placing cold tea bags over his puffy eyes and persuaded Chris to try it live.
The bags were not sufficiently cold and threatened to burn rather than soothe him. With his eyes covered, Chris heard Scott knock a chair over and thought he had been injured. Two minutes produced no obvious transformation, but Scott photographed the treatment and listeners immediately asked to see the evidence.
How not to ask Andrew and Emma about their relationship
After enjoying Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone’s visit, Scott had watched other interviews in which reporters tried to make them discuss being a couple. The pair’s mood changed as soon as a question moved towards their private life, and Andrew had become exceptionally skilled at refusing without creating a confrontation.
A compilation included direct questions, imagined double dates and an attempt to disguise the subject as relationship advice for Peter and Gwen. One interviewer tried three separate routes; Andrew acknowledged the intention and declined each one. Scott was relieved that his own interview had left the elephant in the room alone, and the clips proved that creativity did not make the forbidden question more welcome.
Gaga is translated for Lily
Scott played Lily the previous day’s message from Lady Gaga and asked everybody to call out their name at the exact point they stopped understanding. Lily followed it without difficulty. She translated Gaga’s answer as support from one artist who knew what it meant to suffer for her work and agreed that interviews often tried to manufacture conflict between musicians.
The discussion also exposed an old social-media incident. Chris had encouraged everybody to tell Lily that Scott unfollowed her, turning an ordinary change into a minor drama. Lily still kept a handwritten note Scott had once sent when no proper stationery was available, although she reported that the paper had changed colour.
Lily loves the trolls
Loving the Trolls had previously used Lawrence’s computer voice to remove the sting from insults aimed at the programme. Lily became its first celebrity participant. Lawrence said Chris was about as funny as a kick in the crotch, accused Scott of having a moon face and the musical taste of a child, then moved to comments telling Lily to stop copying Kesha and claiming listeners had punched themselves while trying to remove one of her songs from their heads.
Lily enjoyed hearing the hostile material instead of being protected from it. She already treated much of her Twitter feed as entertainment because the insults were repetitive and unoriginal, usually accusing her of copying Kesha or Samantha Mumba. Putting them through Lawrence made their emptiness unavoidable and provided a more honest interview than showing a guest nothing but praise.
Foxes faces the water
Foxes arrived barefoot for Innuendo Bingo and was refused a protective poncho. A BBC Newcastle builder stood beside a huge erection, a Radio Solent presenter planned to put a foot-long sausage in her mouth and a radio play featured a silver box drawn from somebody’s mouth.
Tom Jones had put himself into his singers, Embarrassing Bodies produced repeated cries of “I’m coming” during a cold bath, and Perfection offered “Little Willies” as a troubling answer. Springwatch had cameras on great tits before Radio 4 promised Twitter photographs of jam. Foxes moved closer to improve her aim and accidentally put herself in range of even more water, but remained strikingly composed as her make-up ran.
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