The best bit of Monday's show was pure behind-the-scenes magic: bonus footage from Sara Cox's visit to Dame Judi Dench's house, where the Dame picked up a kazoo and tried to perform Shakespeare through it. Sara explained that after the main interview wrapped, Judi's co-writer Brendan O'Hea found a packet of kazoos lying around and dared her to have a go, with Judi managing a garbled "music for the food of love" before dissolving into laughter. Sara said the clip, along with Judi reciting a sonnet, has already been watched more than three million times on the Radio 2 Instagram.
Listen: Judi Dench's kazoo Shakespeare game
Matt Baker popped in to talk about his new book on the dogs he's owned throughout his life, before being roped into "Rex Factor", where he tried to talk a reluctant partner into getting a pet. Oliver from Bath and his son William were desperate for a dachshund, so Matt rang Oliver's wife Sarah live on air and gave a full romantic pitch for the breed, joking that if she needed convincing she should "read chapter 12" of his book, which is all about his own dachshund Ivy.
Listen: Matt Baker's Rex Factor pitch for Oliver's wife Sarah
There was a lovely real-life romance too: bride-to-be Louise from Newcastle called in an hour before her wedding at Gretna Green, telling Sara how she met her postman fiancé Paul on his delivery round and how he proposed with a swapped engagement ring over dinner in the Lake District.
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