Gary Davies asked listeners for their best freebie stories and got a belter from a caller called Sarah, who revealed she went into labour during a performance of Chess, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, and ended up watching the second half from the royal box after the theatre manager offered it as a solution. She told Gary "these actors must have thought what is wrong with this woman," as her husband timed her contractions between songs before they dashed off to hospital.
The daily pub quiz brought an even bigger surprise. Corinne, playing from Crediton in Devon under the team name "The Vorums," used the gap between questions to announce live on air that she is getting married on 8 December, a secret she said her own family did not know about. "We've got family listening so this is going to be a big surprise," she told Gary, explaining the wedding had been postponed several times because of Covid. Gary congratulated her and asked to be invited, joking that anyone not listening that night would simply miss out.
Elsewhere, Gary marked Mad Hatter Day by asking listeners for the silliest songs they could think of, leading to a run of novelty picks including The Firm's Star Trekking and Captain Sensible's Happy Talk. He also passed on the fact that Radio 2's own Angela Griffin directs the BBC drama Blue Lights, calling it "unbelievable," and noted Michael Sheen's first outing as the new host of House of Games.
Travel presenter Kirsten O'Brien ran the 1980s number ones pub quiz, finishing with a perfect five out of five, while Corinne scored three.
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