A bank holiday Breakfast
Nick Grimshaw was off for the bank holiday, so Scott and Chris returned to Breakfast. The rain fitted the occasion almost everywhere except Scotland, where the summer bank holiday had already taken place.
Chris arrived hoarse from Reading Festival after shouting, eating festival food and partying. He reached his girlfriend’s parents’ house at three or four in the morning and decided to cook a pizza, setting off the smoke alarms and waking everybody. Broadcasting an apology did not guarantee that the household heard it, but allowed him to say he had made one.
Miley wears everything
The MTV Video Music Awards had taken place overnight in Los Angeles. Miley Cyrus presented in a succession of outfits involving metallic straps, flags, tinsel and carefully positioned shapes, repeatedly testing the broadcast delay.
Scott and Chris worked through the photographs for listeners who had been asleep. Restrictions prevented them from playing every television clip, which made descriptions of the costumes more surreal than the images themselves.
Justin Bieber performed a medley, flew above the stage on a harness and burst into tears when he landed. Scott wondered whether the emotion demonstrated relief, the strain of the harness or the success of the public campaign that had persuaded everybody to like Bieber again. Whatever the explanation, releasing acceptable new music had helped.
Kanye for president
Kanye West used an 11-minute acceptance speech to discuss artists, ideas and truth before announcing that he intended to run for president in 2020. The statement appeared to surprise Kim Kardashian as much as the audience.
Because the programme could not use the full VMAs clip, an actor reconstructed the key lines. Scott thought Kanye had sensed the speech needed an enormous finish and produced the biggest possible announcement, then walked away looking satisfied while everybody else processed what he had said.
A roast delivered to the door
Beth entered Instant Dragons’ Den with a takeaway roast-dinner service for Winchester. She called it the Roast Wall and imagined expanding it through franchises, allowing people to order a properly made British Sunday meal instead of relying on a chain.
Deborah Meaden liked Beth and the general thought, but believed restaurants already offered delivered roast dinners. Beth attempted to prevent the rejection by talking over every pause, hoping Deborah could not say she was out if she never stopped speaking.
The tactic delayed but did not change the decision. Deborah praised Beth’s thinking, told her to find an idea that did not already exist and ended the call without providing the instant bank transfer Beth had hoped for.
The source labels this programme 24 August, but that date was not the bank holiday outside Scotland and the show discusses the VMAs held on Sunday 30 August. Its own continuity places it conclusively on 31 August 2015.
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