Beyoncé ticket queues
Scott heard from listeners still trying to buy Beyoncé tickets.
One friend joined the online queue behind almost 297,000 other people.
Scott advised anyone unsuccessful on Friday to abandon the attempt and try again when another sale opened on Monday.
Online speculation also suggested Beyoncé might fill the remaining Friday-night headline slot at Glastonbury because a gap in her tour schedule appeared to fit.
The child who ordered nearly $1,000 of food
A father in Michigan discovered that his son Mason had used his phone to place a series of food orders.
Cars began arriving and leaving the driveway while a fraud alert appeared for $439.
The complete order was reported to be worth almost $1,000 and included more than a dozen portions of chilli-cheese fries.
Mason had also added a 25% tip to every order.
Scott warned parents not to leave shopping and delivery apps available on unattended phones.
Ireland chooses its Eurovision entry
John Lydon was preparing to compete for the chance to represent Ireland with Public Image Ltd’s Hawaii.
The song was written as a love letter to his wife Nora, who had Alzheimer’s disease.
Scott wished the competing artists luck ahead of the selection programme.
Måns Zelmerlöw and Ngunan Adamu
The 2015 Eurovision winner Måns Zelmerlöw joined Scott in the studio, while BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Ngunan Adamu joined from Liverpool.
They discussed the growing excitement after Sam Ryder’s second-place result and the UK becoming the host country on Ukraine’s behalf.
Måns said Sam had changed attitudes towards Eurovision in Britain, with people who once mocked the contest beginning to care about it.
Ngunan introduced the new Eurovisioncast podcast, presented with Måns, BBC Eurovision reporter Daniel Rosney and BBC Breakfast’s Nina Warhurst.
She promised a joyful programme that would also examine backstage rivalries and the stories Eurovision delegations did not always want to tell.
Måns said the contestants usually tried to support each other, even when their delegations were fiercely competitive.
Three minutes of Eurovision
Scott gave Måns and Ngunan exactly three minutes — the maximum permitted length of a Eurovision song — to answer a series of questions.
They explained that national selections were already taking place because entries had to be confirmed by March.
The contest would take place at Liverpool Arena under the slogan United by Music.
Måns described Sweden’s Melodifestivalen selection process as almost bigger than Eurovision itself and called winning in 2015 the biggest moment of his life.
They explained that the semi-finals reduced a field of more than 40 countries to a manageable final. The Big Five and the host country qualified automatically.
Ngunan said Liverpool was already excited but remained conscious that the city was staging the event for Ukraine.
Måns chose Mahmood’s Soldi as the best Eurovision song other than his own. Ngunan selected Conchita Wurst’s Rise Like a Phoenix.
Måns said he would consider entering again, noting that Johnny Logan had won twice.
He also promised Scott some wine from his own brand.
The Birthday Game: Kerry
Kerry from Gosport described an unconventional wedding day.
She and her partner married in front of only two friends and around 15 people who knew about the plan. They then celebrated at a Coldplay concert at Wembley Stadium alongside roughly 90,000 people.
Kerry called herself “40-ten” and shared her birthday with Isla Fisher, Warwick Davis and Sean Kingston.
Her first spin was the Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. She rejected it immediately.
The second was Céline Dion’s Think Twice. Kerry rejected that as well.
Her compulsory final song was Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson’s I Know Him So Well, number one in 1985.
Kerry accepted the musical-theatre duet, while Scott noted the remarkable amount of hairspray visible in its video.
The Wonder Years
The first week of Radio 2’s Piano Room Month ended with the original Sugababes performing at Maida Vale.
Scott then presented an all-1980s Wonder Years, beginning in 1981 with Rick Springfield’s Jessie’s Girl.
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