Chappers’ fireworks nearly became a housing issue
Mark Chapman had been setting off fireworks and admitted considering fixes which listeners quickly warned against, including attaching a Catherine wheel to the shed. One rocket came uncomfortably close to the next-door fence, proving the audience’s caution was justified.
Edith Bowman went to the MTV red carpet
Edith reported live from Liverpool for the MTV Europe Music Awards. Scott supplied questions in the programme’s usual style, including the kind of personal or oddly specific prompts that cut through normal red-carpet answers.
Dear Scott and the public supplied awkwardness elsewhere
A listener called Nathan wondered whether a date might secretly be a mystery shopper after she asked him to rate his own kissing ability. The public also described Andrew Lloyd Webber in three words. The whole programme revolved around people being unexpectedly assessed, whether by a date, an awards interviewer or neighbours watching a rocket head toward their fence.


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