Scott counts tarts and soggy bottoms with the Great British Bake Off
Scott had clearly become hooked on The Great British Bake Off, despite initially claiming not to know much about baking. After the previous night’s pastry episode, he and Beccy turned the programme’s repeated use of the words “tart” and “bottom” into an on-air points game, playing back the clips and inviting listeners to guess the totals.
The first count was for “tart”, which appeared 37 times. The second was for “bottom”, mostly in warnings about soggy pastry, and Beccy correctly guessed 10. It was one of those wonderfully unnecessary exercises the show could make feel like a major event, particularly once the listeners started playing along for Scott Mills Points.
The programme also returned to Scott’s latest neighbourhood obsession. He had noticed a woman living nearby whose house appeared to host a steady succession of late-night visitors, often arriving with a bottle of wine. Scott admitted he was becoming a curtain-twitching neighbour, then asked listeners for the strange domestic mysteries they had watched unfold near their own homes.
With GCSE results due the following morning, Scott took time to calm listeners who were dreading opening the envelope. He stressed that disappointing grades were not the end of the world, and pointed people towards Radio 1’s exam-results advice rather than allowing the usual jokes to overpower a genuinely anxious moment for the audience.
The episode balanced its sillier elements with that reassurance. A discussion of food television led naturally to the group’s rule that a tempting bake-off programme ought to be followed by a less appetising medical show, while the tarts-and-bottoms quiz became the day’s cheerful excuse for everyone to talk nonsense.
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