Jo Whiley's Monday evening was packed with feelgood chat, but the best bit came via a replayed clip from last week's Johnny Marr interview. Marr recalled his first ever Top of the Pops performance in painful detail, revealing he couldn't get proper moccasins for the gig and ended up wearing Marks & Spencer slipper-moccasins instead – a decision he realised, mid-performance, was a serious slipping hazard. "I was just convinced that I was going to fall on my arse on live television," he told Jo, to her evident delight.
Jungle popped up too, with the band recorded live at Air Studios for the BBC and answering Jo's bucket-list and dessert questions: Tom fancies commentating on a football match (and loves tiramisu), Josh wants to bungee jump off Big Ben, and Lydia – whose answer initially got missed, prompting an on-air apology to listener James King – dreams of starring in a film and goes for a good old crumble.
Elsewhere, Jo corrected herself live on air after wrongly suggesting the Mercury Prize was imminent – it's actually 22 October – while Dame Jacqueline Wilson read from her beloved I Capture the Castle for Radio 2's Book Week, and Sam Smith's pick of Gregory Alan Isakov's Amsterdam as his "exit from Planet Earth" song got another airing. Looking ahead, Jo teased a bumper week: James King bringing voice clips from Jeremy Allen White and Josh Hartnett on Tuesday, Chloe Slater in session Wednesday, and Russell T Davies talking books and music on Thursday.
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