Instant Dragons Den returned with the butter stick
The show revived Instant Dragons Den, where listeners were put directly through to Deborah Meaden and had to pitch an invention with almost no preparation.
Chris Taylor’s idea attempted to solve one of breakfast’s least serious problems: cold butter tearing bread and toast. His solution was butter packaged in a glue-stick-style tube so it could be twisted up and spread without a knife.
He pitched the idea with an ambitious valuation, while Deborah questioned the practicalities. After the call, Scott and Chris discovered that very similar butter-stick products had already been attempted, taking some of the shine off the supposed breakthrough.
Chris’s shorts disappeared at the Radio 1 gym
A much stranger mystery developed in the staff gym. Chris had been changing near Newsbeat sports reporter Simon Mundie when his own black gym shorts disappeared.
Simon then emerged wearing a pair that looked extremely similar and, on him, noticeably tighter. Chris asked about them and Simon said they had come from lost property.
Rather than immediately accuse a colleague of accidentally taking his clothes, Chris went along with the explanation. That left him without his shorts and increasingly convinced he knew exactly where they had gone.
Scott used Yasss FC as bait
Scott invited Simon onto the programme under the perfectly legitimate pretence of asking a sports reporter for Fantasy Premier League advice about Yasss FC.
Only after receiving the football tips did Scott reveal the real reason for the call and raise the shorts mystery. Simon suddenly found himself having to explain why his gym kit looked so familiar while Chris listened from the studio.
The programme also discussed Noel Edmonds’s new television show Cheap Cheap Cheap, whose deliberately eccentric corner-shop format had already given Scott and Chris plenty to analyse.
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