Vernon Kay spent part of Good News Wednesday reacting to a clip doing the rounds online of a woman stunned by the size of his hands, captured in a handprint moulding at Blackpool Pleasure Beach from when he opened one of the rides. "Let's just say this woman is flabbergasted at the size of your hands," he said, putting it down to his old American football days with the London Warriors rather than anything else.
Listen: The viral handprint video
Meera Syal gave the best material of the Tracks of My Years slot, talking Vernon through making Goodness Gracious Me and admitting she once cried outside Joni Mitchell's old house in Laurel Canyon. She also revealed she and Sanjeev Bhaskar still associate Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now with needing the toilet, since it was their stadium tour walk-on music, and said the show's sketches changed how British Asians were seen: "We were never mean because we wanted people to come and laugh with us rather than at us."
Listen: Meera Syal on Goodness Gracious Me and Joni Mitchell
Ten to the Top went down to the wire, with Andrew from the north racking up 24 points before Deb in Cirencester nudged ahead with 26, winning the smart speaker and the fridge magnet after correctly dating Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do to 2015. Elsewhere on Good News Wednesday, listeners shared a belated honeymoon in the Lake District, a new fridge freezer after 20 years' service, and a dramatic tale of spilt paint in a husband's new electric Renault 5 that somehow went unnoticed.
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