The viral sharing box
Bobbie contacted Scott after accidentally becoming a VIP customer at her local takeaway.
She regularly posted photographs of meals online mainly to show off to friends and family rather than to build an influencer career.
One evening, she and her partner ordered a £20 sharing box they had never tried before.
Bobbie posted a photograph because the meal looked sensational.
The image spread far beyond her normal audience, reached newspapers and attracted food bloggers.
When she next visited, the shop was surrounded by cardboard boxes as staff tried to keep up with customers ordering the meal from her post.
Somebody had explained to the owner that the sudden rush came from Bobbie’s tweet.
The Birthday Game: Michael
Michael from West Sussex turned 42 and worked as a self-employed handyman and builder.
Radio 2 played throughout his workday and remained on when he returned home.
He was spending the birthday in London before seeing The Mousetrap.
Michael wanted something upbeat, fun and danceable.
His first spin was Queen. He rejected it, despite Scott pointing out that keeping Queen would give him enough time to visit the toilet.
The second was Girls Aloud’s Children in Need version of I’ll Stand by You. Michael rejected that too.
His compulsory final spin was the Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody, which reached number one in 1990 after becoming closely associated with the pottery scene in Ghost.
Michael accepted it and requested the birthday balloon.
Listeners were more alarmed by him rejecting Queen than by any other part of the game.
The Friday show
Scott continued collecting examples of listeners receiving unusually generous or familiar treatment from local takeaways.
Handover
The available transcript ends during the programme’s Friday features and does not preserve a complete final handover.
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