Scott secures the green light (repeatedly) from an irritatingly enthusiastic PR person to cut Andy Murray’s hair for Children in Need, while a caller grapples with finding his girlfriend’s box of love letters from an ex.
The show opens with a caller named Mike taking part in an ongoing challenge to stay on the phone in a phone box for an hour to win interactive DVDs — a running bit that’s proving difficult thanks to failing coins. Scott and the team take pity, with listener Jackie offering to bring Mike a hot thermos flask of tea and a scarf.
The main event arrives when Scott receives an email from a PR company about an exciting project. Their repeated response — “Go, go, go, go, go” — becomes the butt of the joke as Scott wonders why PR people can’t just speak normally and say “yes.” It turns out the green light is for Scott to cut tennis player Andy Murray’s hair live on air for Children in Need, provided they raise £10,000 in 24 hours. Scott, playing up his dubious credentials as a “celebrity hairdresser,” warns he’ll try not to cut Andy’s ear off and promises a Jennifer Aniston-style look. He jokes about needing to get his left-handed scissors back from a previous celebrity haircut.
The second feature is more serious: a caller has found a box of letters, postcards, and cards tied with pink ribbon in his American girlfriend’s wardrobe while tidying. The letters appear to be from an ex-boyfriend. After much persuasion from Scott — amid debate about whether he should read them — the caller opens one. It’s a tender letter from someone named Jay, describing missing the girlfriend, references to a beach trip, and a cheeky PS about a “kiss flash naked situation in the night.” The caller reads it live, clearly uncomfortable hearing about his girlfriend’s romantic past, while Scott and the team discuss whether keeping an ex-box is acceptable.
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