Scott feared nobody would come to hear him speak
Scott was due to give a talk about his career in Leeds and admitted he had developed an irrational fear that nobody would turn up.
The worry came from remembering a famous person he had once seen sitting at a book-signing table with a huge stack of autobiographies and nobody waiting to meet them.
Naturally, listeners immediately wanted to know who the abandoned celebrity had been.
Scott refused to say, turning his attempt to describe a fear into another secret-celebrity guessing game.
Chris could no longer tolerate the sneeze
Chris had been storing up a relationship complaint for some time.
His girlfriend had a particular sneeze which had not bothered him at first but now irritated him every time he heard it.
The discussion became an argument about whether the sound of a sneeze was involuntary or whether people added their own dramatic flourishes.
Listeners reported parents who screamed while sneezing, people who deliberately exaggerated the sound and one man who had sneezed into a drum.
Scott and Chris concluded the expulsion itself might be unavoidable, but the performance around it probably was not.
Listeners supplied their own unbearable noises
Once the topic was open, the show heard about the little sounds made by partners, parents and colleagues which were harmless in isolation but became impossible to ignore after hearing them hundreds of times.
It was another example of the programme turning a tiny domestic irritation into a national grievance.
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