The funniest moment of Nick Grimshaw's Friday show came not from Steinbeck but from a multipack of Quavers. Florence Pugh brought in the crisps for the show's "crisps on the radio" bit, only to realise mid-segment she couldn't actually eat them herself. "Not to buy a kill, but I'm allergic to gluten," she admitted, leaving Mike Faist to do the honours (and the crunching) solo.
The pair were in to talk East of Eden, Zoe Kazan's new Steinbeck adaptation, which launched on Netflix this week. Faist described the nerves of taking on a project with such cinematic baggage – "the two feelings you feel are hell yes and oh God" – while Pugh, who's also an executive producer, spoke movingly about the emotional toll of the shoot and the "finite amount of time" actors get with a world before it's gone. They closed out picking tracks from Lean and Metronomy to send them off.
Elsewhere, Julia Rayside dropped by with weekend viewing: a big thumbs up for Channel 4's new "genuinely funny" rom-com Break Clause, and the wonderfully strange film Lady starring Sean Clifford.
The best gossip came after the news: Nick revealed Guy Garvey is officially Emily Eavis's godfather, after discovering she didn't have one at Annie Mac's Ivor Novello Academy Awards night. Nick also teased that a "6 Music legend" would be joining Lauren Laverne in the studio at half past eleven – no name given, but plenty of intrigue left hanging.
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