Trevor Nelson spent much of Wednesday's show recovering from a dental disaster that happened just before he went on air. He told Kirsten and the team how he was having a quiet lunch with colleagues near "half of Radio 1's young whippersnappers" when he felt something drop into his food. "I thought a tooth had fallen out into my food," he said, before realising it was actually a crown, which he carefully wrapped in a napkin before tracking down an emergency dentist. The story backfired slightly when he later admitted he'd lost the crown again while tidying up, joking that the dentist had told him "we'll glue it back on, mate, no problem." Listeners loved it: one texted to say it took them six days to find a swallowed crown, while another said theirs fell out on the morning of their own wedding.
Elsewhere, actor and broadcaster Edith Bowman popped up for Radio 2 Book Week, recommending Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah ahead of the film's December release, reading a short extract from Alia Atreides' point of view.
The Three Seconds to Name game produced a standout caller in Jill from Cambridge, who correctly named King despite insisting she wasn't "incredibly brainy" just because she works at a Cambridge college. John from Syston in Leicestershire bagged double points for solving the cryptic clue "Chimes Twice" as the Ting Tings.
Trevor also teased Thursday's Radio 2 highlights, including crime writer Ian Rankin joining Breakfast, and a previously unheard Dolly Parton track sung in Welsh airing on the country show.
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