Milk in the fridge
Listeners continued arguing about the correct place to store milk.
Some insisted the middle shelf kept it colder and fresher than the door.
Others said placing a bottle horizontally would almost certainly cause a leak.
The disagreement became part of a wider Friday review of the programme’s recent minor mysteries.
Lizards and phone chargers
Scott returned to Echo, the large escaped tegu lizard whose owner had been taking a meerkat to the vet when she dug out of her enclosure.
He also revisited his claim that phone-charging cables left in the Radio 2 studio repeatedly disappeared or were replaced by broken ones.
The team remained unable to identify a culprit.
The Birthday Game: Lizzie
Lizzie turned 51 and planned a party tea with her eight-year-old son Ronnie after collecting him from school.
She worked from a shed with Radio 2 playing throughout the day and was an extremely committed Cliff Richard fan, complete with an annual calendar.
Lizzie shared her birthday with Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox and Muse singer Matt Bellamy.
Her first spin was Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale. Lizzie called it a classic but too dreary.
The second was Pitbull, Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer’s Give Me Everything. She rejected it immediately.
Her compulsory final song was Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime, number one in 1970.
Lizzie accepted it as cheerful, seasonal and close enough to Cliff Richard’s era.
The week in review
Scott replayed Louise admitting she cleaned and mopped the kitchen and hallway before bed, earning the old nickname Lulu Dishcloth.
He also revisited Adam Lambert’s Music Police appearance and Johnny’s successful Pat Benatar result.
The Hot Wonder Years
With temperatures rising across most of the UK, Scott finally opened the locked box containing the Hot Wonder Years playlist.
The sequence began in 1997 and included Dario G, Nelly and other records strongly associated with summer.
Listeners sent messages from gardens, school runs, tractors and slow-moving Friday traffic.
Handover
The available transcript ends during the Hot Wonder Years and does not preserve the final handover.
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