The tortoise PowerPoint
Matthew’s 13-year-old daughter created a 23-slide PowerPoint presentation explaining why her parents should buy her a tortoise.
The presentation covered the animal’s needs, the responsibilities she would accept and the benefits of having a long-lived pet.
One slide warned that she would be sad when she no longer had friends and argued that the tortoise would provide companionship.
The final pages asked permission to pay a £25 deposit and included a direct link to reserve the animal before it disappeared.
The presentation had received around 1.8 million views after Matthew shared extracts online.
Matthew and his wife eventually gave in and agreed to buy the tortoise.
Scott said the presentation proved PowerPoint could be used to secure almost anything.
Listeners then shared similar efforts by children, including an 11-year-old presenting the case for being allowed TikTok and a teenager preparing a document about why somebody should agree to date them.
The Birthday Game: Louise
Louise turned 49 and worked as an NHS care coordinator supporting several doctors’ surgeries.
She had completed walking marathons and was preparing for a 100-kilometre challenge from Putney Bridge to Henley-on-Thames.
Scott was impressed that walking a marathon could take around eight or nine hours and considered signing the programme team up.
Louise shared her birthday with Steve McFadden, Paul Merson, Fernando Torres and Freema Agyeman.
Her first spin was DJ Casper’s Cha Cha Slide, number one in 2004. She rejected it despite asking for music from the 1990s and 2000s.
The second was Boy George’s Everything I Own, number one in 1987.
Louise accepted it because she loved Boy George.
The unused third option would have been Will Young.
Emma Willis later sent Scott a voice note confirming that her birthday was 18 March rather than 20 March, correcting conflicting information online.
A new Music Police case
Chloe had spent around 15 years trying to identify a song containing the line: “Stop laughing at me.”
She could remember little else and apologised while singing the fragment.
Listeners suggested Keane’s Bedshaped, but the case remained unresolved.
Scott asked for more voice notes and admitted there was very little evidence for the force to work with.
Scott returns to Hollyoaks
Scott revealed that the following day’s programme would come from BBC Radio Merseyside because he was filming Hollyoaks in Liverpool.
He had previously appeared as a police officer with a single line warning somebody to stay away from bad boys.
The new role involved an entire scene rather than one sentence.
Scott was not allowed to reveal the character or storyline but admitted he was worried about learning the script before filming at 7.30 the next morning.
Listeners suggested recording the other characters’ lines and leaving gaps for his responses, writing the script out repeatedly and carrying it everywhere.
Natalie Cassidy sent a voice note saying different actors used different methods, but her own approach was simply to read the pages again and again, particularly before bed.
Why Liverpool?
Scott continued refusing to reveal the specifics of the Hollyoaks appearance.
He promised listeners on Merseyside that the next programme would be broadcast locally after filming.
Handover
Scott handed over to Sara Cox after heading to Liverpool with the script in his bag.
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