Greg James spent much of Wednesday's show still buzzing from the day before, when he found himself playing street cricket with Prince William on a closed-off section of the Mall outside Buckingham Palace, alongside Joe Root, Harry Brook and Brian Lara. Greg admitted he went for broke with the bat, trying to hit the ball into the press pen and even "trying to moose it into the Clarence House garden," and joked that William could have caught him out if he'd been paying attention. "I felt quite strange about it, it was very weird but amazing," Greg said of the whole encounter.
Listen: Greg James on playing cricket with Prince William
Listeners phoned in for a segment on being insulted by someone trying to be nice, which produced some gems. Lucy told Greg she'd once been called "sturdy" by a gym-goer despite being five foot three, while another caller revealed her husband told her she "looked less haggard" after she switched from night shifts to days. Greg sympathised, saying the husband "should try a little bit harder" next time.
Listen: The "nice but insulting" phone-in
The Autumn edition of Sexy, Not Sexy threw up a genuine debate when caller Emily described wheeling a wheelbarrow to a pumpkin patch, leaving Greg convinced pumpkin patches work on a "pick your own and wheel it home" basis — a theory other listeners quickly dismantled, insisting you simply drive there and put pumpkins in the boot.
Greg also tried to make sense of the internet's "Kelly Clarkson mechanical bird drama" from a Brooklyn shop, before spinning a joke "celebrity drama" wheel that landed on Richard E Grant taking on Warrington Council's planning department.
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