Westwood drops by to chat about One Extra Live in Coventry, his new YouTube channel, and to tease Scott about his toilet habits before taking over the show on Easter Monday. Later, Jo Whiley visits to discuss her unexpected obsession with the German soap Lindenstraße and attempts to translate bizarre clips, plus Scott tries to recruit young bell ringers willing to play modern hits.
Westwood opens the show in typically chaotic fashion, discussing the BBC3 soap *Kate Modern* and immediately diving into chat about One Extra Live, the major event happening in Coventry that weekend with performances from Chris Brown, Craig David, and others. Westwood will be introducing acts and doing live radio coverage. He shows off his YouTube channel (10 Westwood TV), which has accumulated 7 million hits in ten months, featuring everything from studio guests to pimped-car spoofs where things regularly go wrong. Scott and Westwood discuss Westwood’s upcoming takeover of the station on Easter Monday, with Scott asking him to shout over music to signal the start of the bank holiday, which Westwood enthusiastically agrees to.
Jo Whiley then pops in to chat about *Upstaged*, the BBC3 talent show she presents where the winner gets £10,000. She mentions a drag queen called Cookie who was making up songs about her on a lollipop stick. The main conversation centres on Jo’s newfound addiction to the German soap *Lindenstraße* (the German equivalent of Coronation Street), which she watches despite not understanding German. She’s been making up her own interpretations of the plot and plays various clips, hilariously mistranslating lines. Scott brings in Constance, a German speaker, to help translate, revealing Jo’s translations were wildly inaccurate. Jo also discusses voting on the *Upstaged* website.
The show then shifts to listener emails about bell ringing. Chloe’s new boyfriend is a bell ringer (campanologist), which has sparked mockery from her friends. Scott wonders if bell ringing is sexy and whether young people do it, and invites callers to discuss. Daniel, 22, calls in from Blackmail and confirms he bell rings, started because his girlfriend does it, and yes, it can be sexy. Scott asks if they can play modern songs like Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on church bells. Cat calls in to reveal an embarrassing childhood memory of flying up a rope while wearing choir robes with her pants visible. Debbie rings about her late mother-in-law, who used to wear heavy tights with talcum powder to mask embarrassing incidents—creating a little puff cloud when needed.
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