Holiday romances, no food at Zante airport and MJCans’ impossible checklist
Danny Howard was back from a short trip to Zante and had one overriding complaint: once he had gone through departures, he could not find any food. The airport had duty-free whisky and bottles of Coke, but apparently no dependable ham-and-cheese baguette. Beccy and the team treated it as a particularly bleak end to a sunny weekend, while listeners offered evidence that food did exist if he had stayed on the other side of security.
The holiday theme continued with the slightly uncomfortable moment of flying home alongside people whose holiday romances had not gone quite to plan. The team imagined the sunglasses going on and the determined attempts not to recognise somebody from two nights earlier. Danny and Beccy then sent out Smooth Talking Dan and Sweet Talking Ingrid to find out whether Stupid Street strangers had ever had a holiday romance.
Their game was to guess from a voice alone. One Lucy cheerfully said that “everything pretty much” had happened on her holiday; another rejected Danny’s attempt to offer himself as a possible romance. The standout was MJCans, who had met a man in Greece, bought a house with him and then split up, but was now looking for someone who could satisfy a formidable list of requirements.
MJCans wanted somebody interesting, funny but not too nice, fit, able to cook, cuddly but not overly clingy, good with her friends and possessed of “footballer’s legs”. She also ruled out receding hairlines and silver foxes. The speed and precision of the list made her an instant favourite in the studio, with the team delighted by the idea that she had effectively delivered an elevator pitch for a future boyfriend.
Elsewhere, Danny was preparing to host a radio-industry quiz and worried that Beccy being on his team would make any victory look fixed. The programme also pretended listeners needed to submit leave forms before going on holiday so that somebody could cover their Radio 1 listening. It was a small, silly premise, but it prompted exactly the right kind of response: people volunteering relatives, extra radios and exceptionally enthusiastic listening as cover.
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