Scott returns, Beccy stitches celebrities and takeaway delivery gets complicated
Scott was back after Christmas and New Year with an immediate confession from his New Year’s Eve DJ set in London. He had downloaded the Big Ben chimes but played them a minute too early, meaning his club celebrated 2012 before anywhere else in the country. He also reported spending the festive period being taken around an improbable number of Marks & Spencer branches by his mum, who remained convinced each one might have different bargains.
The team clarified that Danny Howard’s supposed television project, Orange, Tanned and Living with Nan, was still only a throwaway resolution rather than an actual BBC Three commission. Scott had meanwhile gone to see David Hasselhoff’s panto in January, a timing he had previously found faintly ridiculous, but he came back converted after a packed Bristol Hippodrome gave him and his mum a shout-out.
Beccy’s Christmas hobby was the day’s real headline. She had started cross-stitching celebrity portraits, beginning with Angelina Jolie, and planned Little Kim for Grimmy and Justin Bieber for Scott. Her determination to make the pastime fashionable was slightly undermined by the head torch she wore to see the stitches, and by listeners deciding that her Angelina could also pass for Cheryl Cole.
Scott then put a genuinely practical question to the audience: could someone order a pizza, Chinese or Indian takeaway to a hospital ward? The debate grew to include delivery to train stations and hotels, where Beccy warned that staff could take it personally if guests ordered food from elsewhere. A caller who used to DJ with Chris remembered being sent to collect Chris’s hotel pizza and cutlery, furthering Scott’s case that Chris had become a little too grand.
Elsewhere, Beccy tried to cool a burn by repeatedly putting her hand into a trophy full of water, while Scott wondered whether he was too impatient for a long box set. It was a fittingly untidy first show back: post-Christmas habits, a dubious celebrity-craft business and an audience invited to settle the important question of where takeaway can reasonably be delivered.
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