Flack Friday
Caroline Flack replaced the originally discussed Friday guest and completed the five-day Innuendo Bingo run. Scott promoted the occasion as “Flack Friday”, while Caroline arrived already aware of how difficult the game could become.
Clips involving Len Goodman, Jake Wood and Arlene Phillips helped create an unusually forceful exchange. Caroline repeatedly soaked Chris and took enough water herself that she struggled to see at the end. The feature would now return to its normal Tuesday-and-Thursday pattern, partly because five sets of wet clothes drying in the office had begun annoying colleagues.
Finding Frida in Sweden
One of Scott’s Swedish friends had claimed that nobody in Sweden was ever more than ten metres from somebody called Frida. Scott suspected a national wind-up but decided to test it using the Swedish Number, a service that connected callers to a random person in the country.
The first calls did not provide a Frida, and explaining the theory to strangers proved difficult. Listeners in Sweden nevertheless supported the idea, comparing Fridas with the claim that Londoners were never far from a rat. Scott remained unconvinced but accepted that the name was common enough for the joke to survive.
A proper Friday banger
Listener Lawrence judged Battle of the Bangers. Chris offered Swedish House Mafia’s “Greyhound”, but Scott won with My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade”, a choice celebrated as suitably enormous for a Friday.
Matthew then played Real or No Real. One genuine story involved a stuffed dog called Sam becoming separated from its helium balloon 25 kilometres above Lancashire, bringing the first week after Easter to a suitably strange conclusion.
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