Emil Franchi hosted Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast on Sunday morning, with regular features including “one word story in Balamori,” listener shout-outs and a phone prank on Katie Thistleton.
The show’s recurring word game saw listeners submit single words for a chance to have their story read out. Cambridge gardener Sarah, whose word “ball-pit” won the vote, shared a story about her daughter’s toddler years involving an awkward incident in a ball pit, joking she “caught” the mess rather than let it spread. Listener Becca also phoned in with an update on the Herdwick sheep world championship from Cumbria, reporting the crown went to entrants Joe Weir and David Harrison.
Continuing a bit of “low-level villainy” from his stint covering Going Home this week, Franchi rang co-host Katie Thistleton and recited Adele’s “Hello” lyrics down the phone, fooling her briefly into thinking he had serious news. “I nearly started dropping some gossip,” Thistleton said afterwards. Franchi also referenced pranks played on Greg James, Charlie Hedges and Jeremiah Asiamah during the week’s Going Home episodes.
Listeners shared their Sunday plans throughout, including runners tackling the Loch Ness Marathon and Robin Hood half marathon, a horse rider heading to the Badminton Horse Trials, and families travelling for weddings, gymnastics and birthdays. A discussion about household “trinkets and objects” prompted a flood of texts, including mentions of a seven-foot metal weather vane.
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