Craig David is properly back
Scott and Chris returned to afternoons after two days covering Breakfast, with Matt Edmondson having occupied their programme in the meantime. Scott had spent the previous evening watching Craig David combine new material with an hour of garage favourites, joined by Katy B and Big Narstie.
Scott accidentally called Big Narstie “Big Tasty”, then tried to disguise the mistake as a deliberate food joke. Craig’s message thanking him for supporting the music from the beginning mattered more: Scott was delighted that an artist so closely connected with the show’s early years was enjoying a genuine resurgence.
Vote Toby
Toby Gladwin had won the University of Exeter guild presidency and attributed about 90% of the result to his campaign video. The film had already attracted roughly 22,000 views and began with Adele’s “Hello” before moving through a Thrift Shop-style section and finishing with “Uptown Funk”. Twelve charity shops had been searched for the right oversized coat.
Scott and Chris listened through the production with Toby, spotting an electric kettle placed on a hob, a suspiciously modern phone and a set of policies squeezed into the lyrics. Toby promised more campus microwaves, an improved room-booking system and online handling of society accounts. Having gone directly for the presidency rather than a smaller union role, he had secured what he described as a landslide.
A cheaper Scott voice
Lisa brought a Show and Tell discovered while learning how to wallpaper around an arch. The tutorial’s narrator sounded sufficiently like Chris for the team to wonder whether somebody had been hired to imitate him cheaply. Chris treated the voiceover as a potential threat to his work, although Scott thought it might simply be another man with a similar delivery.
A listener joined a “minus celebrity” edition of Real or No Real. Russell Kane really had appeared on the cover of a personalised number-plate magazine, leading Chris to suggest that Scott and his number-plate-loving father could pursue the same honour.
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