The funniest moment of Thursday’s Drivetime came from Mark Goodier’s own archive of odd radio war stories. Reminiscing while marking International Coffee Day, he revealed that when he once interviewed Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence of INXS at the Four Seasons Hotel in LA, the crew forgot the microphone stands – so they balanced the mics on a pile of croissants instead. “They were f***ing tunes on the way,” he added of the pair’s music, with no apology needed for the slip of language slipping through.
Elsewhere, the show leaned hard into nostalgia as Live and Kicking marked its birthday, with Mark and Bobbie Pryor trading memories of Magpie, Rainbow, Byker Grove and Tiswas, while listeners flooded in with their own must-watch childhood telly, from Bodger and Badger to Wonder Woman. The Radio 2 Pub Quiz’s movies round produced a genuine feel-good tale: Andy, a primary school head teacher in Bolton calling in mid-shift for his school team Castle Hillers, nailed a perfect five out of five, correctly identifying Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz and Notting Hill, beating Bobbie’s three.
As part of Radio 2 Loves Disco, Mark counted down the genre’s biggest streaming hits, crowning Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” at number one ahead of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive,” plugging Rylan’s ABBA versus Bee Gees concert special airing Sunday. Traitors fever also got a mention ahead of the celebrity series launch, with Mark admitting his whole family would be glued to it that evening.
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