Jo Whiley spent much of the show building up to a genuinely exciting announcement: U2 are playing a secret London gig on Thursday 3 November, and listeners can enter a ballot to be in the audience. "Registration is now open, but be quick," Jo said, explaining fans need to head to the shows and tours page of the BBC website before the ballot closes on Thursday 29 October at 11.59pm. The gig will also be broadcast live on BBC Sounds and later on iPlayer, and Jo invited listeners to email in their own U2 memories, with several arriving on air, including one from a listener who saw the band in Barcelona for her 30th birthday.
TV critic Emma Bullimore joined Jo for the Radio 2 Culture Club and set pulses racing for Blue Planet III, calling it "mesmerising" and praising David Attenborough's return to narrate after four years in the making. Emma also flagged the Traitors finale, airing Friday at 8pm on BBC One, saying "I cannot see how the traitors can lose at this point." She introduced an unusual Netflix event too: Beat Luke Littler, in which members of the public attempt to beat the teenage darts star live for £50,000, hosted by Gary Lineker and Richard Osman this Friday at 7pm.
Jo also played Mercury Prize winner Raye's acceptance speech from last Thursday's ceremony, in which Raye said, "Hope is a very cheesy word… but hope is just something that we all need," before Jo played her session performance.
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