The Beyoncé ticket battle
Listeners reported spending hours trying to buy tickets for Beyoncé’s newly announced tour.
One person had waited online for eight hours before securing two £108 tickets.
Donna believed she had earned “cool mum points” by finding three seats for the London show.
Scott was surprised that the prices sounded more reasonable than some recent Madonna tickets, although the booking systems had repeatedly crashed.
Another listener said the queue for an In the Night Garden event had been almost as stressful.
A mysterious delivery of Mini Eggs
Daniel returned home to discover around 2,500 Mini Eggs addressed to him.
Nobody in his household had ordered or paid for them.
He estimated that the delivery contained roughly £200 of chocolate and suspected it had been intended for a company rather than an individual address.
Daniel ate some before giving most away and said he could no longer face looking at another Mini Egg.
Listener Ian had experienced the opposite problem: a case of wine failed to arrive, and he later saw the empty bottles outside his neighbour’s home. The neighbours admitted drinking it.
The Birthday Game: Sue
Sue from Leicestershire turned 67 and insisted that her sport should be called table tennis rather than ping pong.
She shared her birthday with Shakira, Sir David Jason and Ken Bruce.
Sue favoured music from the 1970s and 1980s but said she enjoyed a broad range.
Her first spin was Sinéad O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U, written by Prince and number one in 1990. Sue rejected the song.
The second was Lewis Capaldi’s Before You Go, number one in 2020. She chose to risk the final spin.
Her compulsory birthday song was Sweet’s Block Buster!, which had spent five weeks at number one in 1973.
Sue admitted she had not been much of a glam-rock fan and would choose Lewis Capaldi if given another chance.
What do you call the television remote?
A survey found that “remote” was the most common term, but listeners also used clicker, switcher, gizmo, zapper and thingamajig.
Scott added “doofa” and “rolly controly” to the list while warning people not to change the station before the Music Police result.
The Music Police
Mark had spent months trying to identify a song he remembered from an online music game.
His melody sounded like: “Tell me to run, run, run without you,” although he was unsure whether any of those words were correct.
The first suspect was Bruno Mars’s Runaway Baby. Mark ruled it out.
The second was Eurythmics’ Thorn in My Side, which also failed despite containing a reference to running.
Thousands of listeners then suggested Monsoon’s Ever So Lonely.
Mark recognised it immediately.
The original had been released in 1981 and reached the charts the following year. A Jakarta remix later became a hit in 2002.
Mark said his brain could finally relax, and Scott played the Jakarta version to close the case.
Handover
Sara Cox thanked Scott before beginning her Thursday teatime show.
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