Bamboleo and the perfect selfie
Bamboleo returns after the previous Wednesday was disrupted by Scott and Chris’s Euro 2016 journey. The programme also considers research claiming that young women spend around five hours each week taking selfies. Chris introduces the supposed facial expression for a perfect picture, “the prune”, although his pronunciation briefly sends the conversation in a much less suitable direction.
Steph’s mother chooses her ex
Listener Steph explains what happened after she ended an eight-year relationship. Her mother cried, stopped speaking to her and then invited the ex-boyfriend to dinner only a week after the break-up. Friends of Steph’s mother also contacted her about the decision.
Steph and her mother have since reconciled. She understands that, because there were no sons in the family, her former partner had come to be treated like one. Even so, Scott and Chris find the speed of the dinner invitation remarkably disloyal to Steph.
A property expert inspects Downing Street
As Theresa May becomes prime minister, Homes Under the Hammer presenter Martin Roberts assesses 10 Downing Street as though it were about to be sold at auction. He notes that there is no ordinary viewing, no accessible legal pack and a mysterious internal arrangement in which people enter but are seldom seen emerging from the same door. The price appears attractive, although the lack of competing options makes it a peculiar purchase.
Alice Levine then joins Real or No Real. A claim about Kylie Jenner eating KFC for the first time at 18 leads to an extended discussion of the chain’s Boneless Banquet, which repeatedly becomes a “bone banquet”. The mistake is entertaining enough to supply the day’s title and nearly overwhelms the question of whether the fact itself is genuine.
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