Gary Davies handed Radio 2 a genuine broadcasting first on Thursday's Drivetime, premiering a previously unreleased live recording of Careless Whisper by George Michael, taken from his 1988 Faith World Tour show in Paris. The track features on the new album The Faith Tour, out on 6 November, alongside a cinema release of unseen footage from the same Paris concert. Gary had already given the tour's Father Figure its first play on his Sounds of the 80s show and admitted this latest one left him "spine tingling."
The afternoon's phone-in asked listeners for their most cringeworthy blunders, and Gary joined in with a story from his own TV days. He recalled wandering into a studio gallery mid-broadcast and being introduced to "his wife Sharon," not realising she was standing right there as the subject of an unflattering remark moments earlier, leaving her to give him a withering look he's never forgotten. Listeners' own confessions ranged from mistaking a stranger for footballer Aaron Ramsey to a hairdresser telling a client with newly dried hair "it'll be nice when it's dry," only to be told it wasn't wet at all.
The daily pub quiz brought a happy ending for Rebecca from Warrington, who revealed she turns 30 on Sunday and is marking it with a camping trip in Derbyshire. Playing under the team name "Still 29 Actually," she aced the fashion-themed round with a perfect five out of five, correctly naming Stella McCartney and defining a milliner, prompting Gary to wish her "a fabulous birthday." Author and wordsmith Susie Dent also popped up for Radio 2's Book Week, reading an extract from Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes.
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