Freya Ridings recruited Daddy Pig
Tune of the Week artist Freya Ridings had one unusually useful family connection.
Her dad, Richard Ridings, voiced Daddy Pig in *Peppa Pig*.
Scott and Chris joked that other radio stations still introduced this as fresh trivia every time Freya’s music played.
They wanted something better.
Freya and her dad recorded a message together, with Richard performing in the Daddy Pig voice.
The surreal result involved Daddy Pig praising Scott and Chris as broadcasters.
Scott could hardly believe the request had actually been completed.
Who had blocked you?
The programme then returned to listeners who had been blocked by celebrities on social media.
One caller had been blocked by Calvin Harris years earlier.
The man came from Dumfries, like Calvin, and had once pursued the kind of celebrity retweet people valued much more in the early Twitter era.
Somewhere along the way, the interaction ended with a block.
Other listeners admitted similar experiences.
The show also noted that Example had been particularly active with the block button over the years.
Scott recognised the strange emotional effect.
A celebrity did not know you personally.
Being blocked could still feel like a tiny, permanent rejection.
Andy Murray arrived
Then came the booking the show had spent days teasing.
Andy Murray joined Scott and Chris.
Scott admitted he had once cut Andy’s hair for charity when the tennis player still wore it much longer.
Andy had kept it shorter ever since.
Scott jokingly claimed responsibility for the improvement.
Superstar versus Superfan
Andy was told Radio 1 had found an enormous fan called Steve.
The rules were simple.
Scott would ask questions about Andy.
If Andy knew the answer, he shouted his own name.
If Steve knew it, Steve shouted his.
What Andy did not know was that “Steve” was really Chris in the next studio with the answers already written down.
Steve knew the Murray details
The questions moved across Andy’s life and career.
If he had not become a tennis player, Andy said he would have wanted to be a footballer, associated with Hibs.
The game asked what he threw or gave fans after matches.
It revisited the Wimbledon hill associated with his name.
It asked why a teenage Andy nearly missed the 2004 Sports Personality of the Year ceremony.
The answer involved being locked in a toilet.
Steve repeatedly got in quickly enough to feel unnervingly knowledgeable.
Even Andy’s hypothetical dating life was included
One question asked which male tennis player Andy had previously said he might date if he were gay.
The source is noisy around the exact answer, so the archive does not pretend to reconstruct the player’s name confidently.
What mattered was the level of detail.
Steve appeared to remember interviews and trivia Andy himself had to think about.
That was the entire Superfan Steve formula.
The celebrity gradually moved from amused to slightly alarmed.
Christmas music received Andy’s permission
Scott also asked Andy whether early December was too soon for Christmas songs.
Andy thought roughly two weeks out was more acceptable.
Then he agreed Radio 1 could play one anyway.
Scott treated that as formal sporting authorisation to begin the festive music.
Superfan Steve had survived another huge booking.
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