Owain Wyn Evans had listeners laughing with his retelling of Ross Kemp's paranoia on Celebrity Traitors, revealing that Prince William recently teased the actor by asking "am I allowed to touch you there?" before rubbing his arm, a nod to Kemp's on-screen fear of being murdered in the game. Owain said Kemp "wasn't gonna freak out this time," setting listeners up nicely for that evening's episode.
The Children in Need update continued to be a running thread through the show. Owain said he'd completed a 70 kilometre ride the day before and revealed there are now just five weeks until he cycles 400 miles across all four nations for the charity. He also shared a tale from the road about a stranger called Doug who stopped to help fix his brakes near Taff's Well, which sparked a flood of texts from listeners about unexpected friendships, including one from Louise in Macclesfield who met a lifelong friend on a train in Germany.
It was also Radio 2 Book Week, with Good Morning Sunday's Jason Muhammad reading a moving extract from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and Owain teasing that crime writer Sir Ian Rankin would be joining the Breakfast Show at 6.30 to discuss his new novel. Elsewhere, newsreader Matt and Owain shared a giggle over the Bank of England's new banknote wildlife, puzzling over exactly what a "buff-tailed bumblebee" looks like.
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