Kate Bush Day
Scott marked Kate Bush’s 66th birthday.
Fans gathered in locations including Folkestone and Preston wearing red dresses and recreating the choreography from Wuthering Heights.
One listener had even appeared on the BBC News website after attending with a friend dressed as a lobster.
Scott also played an archive interview in which Kate explained that the high vocal register used on Wuthering Heights helped her portray Cathy as a spirit.
The Birthday Game: Amy
Amy from Banbury turned 40 and exercised almost every day with friends at an Everyone Active gym.
She worked in her family’s kitchen-manufacturing business and was preparing for a birthday trip to Amsterdam.
Her two older brothers had influenced her taste towards alternative music, although she had recently enjoyed Girls Aloud at the O2.
Amy liked Coldplay, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and a broad range of pop and rock.
The first spin was a number one from 2019.
The programme’s increasingly hot studio and Scott’s need to reach the Spinterview added urgency to the decision.
Greg Rutherford’s Spinterview
Olympic long-jump champion Greg Rutherford joined Scott on the exercise bikes.
He looked back on London 2012 and the extraordinary sequence that became known as Super Saturday.
Greg said walking into the Olympic Stadium for the first time remained one of his clearest memories.
The roar of the home crowd completely took his breath away.
Making an Olympian breathless
Scott was delighted that the cycling format allowed listeners to hear a famous athlete genuinely out of breath.
Greg discussed the unusual pressure of a home Olympics and how unlikely it was that British athletes of their generation would experience anything similar again.
The interview ended with extra spins to Girls Aloud’s Jump.
Handover
Scott handed over after announcing that he had successfully made an Olympic champion breathless.
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