Breakfast radio and a named tram
Scott and Chris are covering the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from Wednesday to Friday. Chris has been awake since 2:30 in the morning and has still found time to play FIFA, where strangers abuse him through the headset.
Vicky McClure joins them while working nights in Glasgow on BBC thriller The Replacement. Despite her success in Line of Duty and This Is England, she remains based in Nottingham, where a tram has been named in her honour. She discusses the strange pride of seeing her name travel around her home city and jokes about the practical benefits that ought to accompany it.
Corsets and cobbled streets
The Secret Agent is Vicky’s first period drama. Corsets made the physical side of filming uncomfortable and sometimes had to be loosened, while Edinburgh locations required modern details to be hidden or removed in post-production. Cobbled streets helped create the right world but made the working day less forgiving.
Vicky watches the completed projects in which she appears and would happily return to This Is England if Shane Meadows develops another story. She gives no false promise, saying only that ideas often remain in his mind until the right moment.
When Vicky judges Bangers, she chooses Scott’s Paramore track “Careful” over Chris’s Ben Howard selection “Keep Your Head Up”. Scott takes a 2–0 lead in the shortened week.
Isla Fisher creates Marge
Isla Fisher talks about her children’s book Marge in Charge, whose mischievous babysitter disregards the mother’s rules and turns ordinary childcare into an adventure. The character allows children to enjoy an adult behaving with the freedom normally reserved for them.
Isla reflects on writing for children and on an Australian accent softened by years spent between Britain and Los Angeles. Family life, work and the experience of creating a character on the page rather than performing one on screen give the second interview a very different rhythm from Vicky’s tales of night shoots and corsets.
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