Category: News
Scott embarks on a quest to acquire a party trick after feeling inadequate without one, leading to listener suggestions ranging from human bagpipes and duck sneezes to a deeply alarming eyeball-based noise trick. Meanwhile, Chappers gets uncomfortably flirty with clips from Kerry Katona's new MTV reality show. [...]
A caller requests to be called Susan, which sparks the revelation that Laura has been calling Scott "Susan" all along — leading to the birth of "Susan on Radio 1" — while Laura becomes convinced that Scouting for Girls wrote their hit "She's So Lovely" about her. [...]
The long-awaited return of "My Name is Scott" sees Jo Whiley get her own back on Scott in spectacular fashion, armed with a paintball gun and a warehouse full of quiz questions designed to humiliate him. [...]
Scott discovers a telescope mysteriously positioned on his landing, pointed directly at his neighbour's bedroom window—and spends the show insisting it's not his while nobody believes him. Meanwhile, the army gets in touch about his earlier jokes about becoming a Forces Sweetheart. [...]
Scott presents a pointless survey ranking the sexiest jobs—including the bizarre inclusion of cowboys—and introduces a baffling vintage invention called Mr. Microphone, a cordless FM broadcaster that lets you transmit to car radios from your home. [...]
Scott welcomes Michelle, Maxie and Chris from the hit teen drama Skins to discuss the new series, but the conversation is frequently derailed by increasingly bizarre Flirt Divert voicemails—including a guy called Mickey who only dates girls whose names rhyme with his, and another caller who's managed to date eleven different Janes. [...]
Scott and Laura launch a tongue-in-cheek romantic novel writing venture, unveiling the first two chapters of "A Long Hot Summer" under the pen name Stephanie Black, complete with dramatic readings featuring some memorable accents from the team. [...]
Scott reads steamy extracts from a tacky romance novel on air and asks listeners how many actually read them—discovering that young women are far more into Mills & Boon than he'd expected. He also plugs his new BBC 3 show Upstaged, a talent competition broadcast live from glass boxes in Bristol. [...]
Chappers debuts a new guessing game where he has to estimate how many kissing partners callers have had, while a listener's confusion between Kelly Osbourne and Kerry Katona leads to an awkward on-air moment. [...]
Scott discovers a ridiculous home fitness invention that's somehow worse at being discreet than it sounds, and previews early contestants for his new BBC Three talent show Upstaged, including a five-piece girl band called The Electric Dolls performing their track "Baps Are Baking." [...]