Monday's show on Radio 2 had a proper party atmosphere as the team marked producer Janine's birthday with cake, decorations, a Stornoway Girls t-shirt (complete with her new nickname "Dingy") and a pick'n'mix bought, slightly awkwardly, after Vernon admitted he'd had to pretend he was off to see a film at his local cinema just to get near the sweets counter.
The big guest was Kiefer Sutherland, who sat down for Tracks of My Years and opened up about growing up around Hollywood royalty. He described his famously tall, leather-jacketed dad Donald Sutherland as simply "really cool" as a kid, before admitting he didn't fully grasp his father's fame until he was 18, telling Vernon he once apologised to his dad for not appreciating his work sooner.
Elsewhere, travel presenter Ellie Brennan's reports threw up one genuine puzzler: a lawnmower loose on the M9 near Falkirk, partially blocking the carriageway, with Vernon and the team debating whether someone had been riding it or whether it had simply "gone awry" and rolled into the road.
Ten to the Top saw Katie from Milwaukee (a former Guinness taster in Dublin, by her own confession a two-week career) score six points, before gardener Sharon from Shrewsbury pipped her with eight points to take home the smart speaker. The archive dip was 1980's World Onion Championships from a Newcastle working men's club, complete with a six-pound-plus winning onion that still pales next to today's near 20lb world record.
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