The show had to fact check Gemma Collins
After Gemma Collins’ whirlwind visit, Scott and Chris returned to several claims that listeners had questioned. The biggest involved her grandfather supposedly working in the mines with Tom Jones.
The team concluded that Tom Jones had not himself worked in the mines and suggested Gemma may have been confusing him with his father’s mining background. Her attempts at Welsh language, the Welsh flag and the alien facial story were also replayed with considerably more scepticism than they had received while she was in the studio.
Chris’s dad wanted to rehearse parking
Chris was preparing to see Lewis Capaldi in Southampton with his brother and dad. His dad had decided that the parking arrangements needed to be understood in advance and had apparently made a separate trip to Southampton to find a suitable car park before the night of the gig.
The team called him and enjoyed how seriously he had approached the logistics. What could have been a simple journey had become a small operation involving routes, parking knowledge and preparation, exactly the kind of family detail Chris was happy to turn into radio.
Listeners demanded the return of 24 Years at the Tap End
During Bamboleo Wednesday, Scott and Chris asked whether anyone would genuinely want to hear 24 Years at the Tap End again. The response was an emphatic yes.
Messages arrived from listeners who remembered the stories and wanted Chris to reopen the autobiographical feature. The appetite for it surprised the team enough that the idea moved from throwaway nostalgia to something they now had to consider writing.
Stephen Graham turned festive lyrics into menace
Stephen Graham joined while promoting The Irishman. Scott wanted to use the contrast between Graham’s friendly real life personality and the intimidating characters he often played, so he asked him to read familiar Christmas songs as if they were threats.
Driving Home for Christmas became unexpectedly intense. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town worked even better, with Graham warning listeners to watch out, not cry and remember that Santa was coming to town.
The audience reaction was not what Scott expected
Scott thought the recordings would sound frightening. A large part of the audience instead found Graham’s voice extremely attractive.
Messages arrived praising the accent and asking for more. The feature designed to demonstrate menace had accidentally created a new group of listeners who were simply “hot for Stephen Graham”, a reaction that would still be dominating the following day’s show.
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