Vernon Kay dropped a cheeky little tease into the travel break, revealing he’s had an LP framed and put up on his wall, but refusing to say which one. “I think when you see which one it is, like yeah, I get it,” he told the team, leaving Phil and Ellie Brennan none the wiser.
The best storytelling of the morning came from Giovanna Fletcher on Tracks Of My Years, who talked movingly about a teacher, Mr Keane, who helped her escape being bullied at school. Giovanna explained that singing Cilla Black’s Anything Else But You in a school play, with Mr Keane in tears, was the moment she realised performing was her path. She also told a brilliant backstage story about being thrown on stage at the last minute to replace an unwell Andrea Riseborough opposite Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hiddleston, saying Tom’s reaction was to think “what on earth is going on” as she morphed into character mid-scene.
Listen: Giovanna Fletcher’s last-minute stage swap
Vernon’s Vault went back to 1994 for a review of the very first FIFA game on a BBC programme called The Net, prompting Vernon to recall getting thrashed playing FIFA online years ago at Radio 1, joking it finished “9-0 or something like that.”
Listen: The first FIFA review from 1994
Ten To The Top saw Neil from Norwich score 21 points to beat Caris from Broadstairs, who managed 12 but was kicking herself over a missed Robbie Williams question. Listeners also flooded in with voice notes about misunderstood jobs, from a foot health practitioner to an “underwater ceramic technician” who turned out to be a dishwasher.
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