Dara’s notes disappear
Dara Ó Briain discovered that notes had been taken from the stage after one of his shows.
Venue staff checked CCTV and identified the person responsible.
The culprit had apparently treated the pages like a band’s set list and believed they were taking a harmless souvenir.
Dara recovered the notes within an hour because the same person was still in the venue bar.
Scott used the incident to ask whether taking material from a comedian’s stage was very different from collecting a set list after a concert.
The Pet Shop Boys vote
Radio 2 opened voting for listeners’ ultimate Pet Shop Boys song before the duo headlined Radio 2 in the Park.
The shortlist covered more than four decades of hits.
Listeners could cast up to five votes before Mark Goodier presented the final countdown.
David Hasselhoff remains elusive
A listener asked when the Hoff would return to Scott’s show.
Scott had recently messaged him asking whether he would be in London soon.
The reply consisted only of the word “soon”, while social media showed Hasselhoff staying in Vilnius.
Scott concluded that the challenge was not persuading him to appear, but discovering where he would be next.
The Music Police
Scott opened a fresh investigation and appealed to listeners with unusually strong song-identification skills.
Handover
Scott handed over after the celebrity theft and another attempt to track down David Hasselhoff.
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