Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby spent most of Thursday's Capital Breakfast glued to a split screen, watching their colleague Kemi Rogers inch up the mast of the Cutty Sark in freezing wind, blindfolded earlier that morning and not told her task until she arrived at the ship. Kemi, who presents Capital's 10am show, admitted live on air "I'm having a heart attack here" as she was talked through abseiling down afterwards, complete with what she called "the front wedgie I've got." She collected all four flags, worth up to £40,000 for the top one, taking her final total to £75,000 for Global's Make Some Noise, ahead of the charity's big fundraising day on Friday.
Gary Neville dropped into the show to announce The Overlap is launching a daily strand from Friday at 4pm, featuring Steven Gerrard and Becky Ivory on Mondays, Joleon Lescott, Ashley Young and Kelly Cates on Tuesdays, and Tim Sherwood with Jamie Redknapp on Wednesdays, among others. Sian then pitched Neville some tongue-in-cheek rule changes for football, including "celebrity VAR" judged by Alan Carr and a "multiball" finish to goalless draws, which Neville said could work as content for the podcast.
Listeners also heard that long-distance walker Carl Bushby, 28 years into a round-the-world trek on foot that began in Chile in 1998, has just reached Dover, prompting the show to task producers with booking him on before he reaches Hull.
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