Category: Show Diary
Jo Whiley braves the rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in pursuit of The Killers, with Scott Mills on hand to document her screams, nerves, and genuine fear on the roller coaster. [...]
Derek Ogilvie, the baby mind reader from Channel 5's TV series, visits the studio to demonstrate his claimed psychic abilities — and Scott brings in a real 14-month-old to test whether he can genuinely read an infant's thoughts live on Radio 1. [...]
Chapper introduces a gloriously messy new game show format where Scott and Laura take turns smashing eggs on their heads — with only four hard-boiled eggs mixed in among two raw ones. [...]
Laura hits the streets to test whether Chloe's boyfriend is really the reformed ladies' man he claims to be, or if he'll fall for her advances in the pub. After a comedic false start with the wrong man, she finally tracks down the right target. [...]
Scott sends Laura into a public library armed only with a whoopee cushion, tasking her to get thrown out using the classic fart gag — but the librarians prove remarkably unfazed by her efforts. [...]
Chappers spends the afternoon intercepting callers trying to request songs, playing them clips of Jay Goodman and putting them through to Westwood instead of the studio team — much to their confusion and annoyance. [...]
Scott has a listener snooping around a mystery celebrity's house doing painting and decorating work — but the catch is the celebrity herself is listening in the whole time, and she's about to have some fun with what he's willing to do. [...]
Scott's classic two-restaurant confusion prank, where he calls one takeaway, takes their order, then connects them to a second restaurant on the line — resulting in complete chaos over an aromatic duck that nobody wants to cook. [...]
Laura attempts to ring up people across Europe to find out about their World Cup songs — but armed only with an internet translator, the results are hilariously garbled and mortifying. [...]
Scott's mum finally got her own back after weeks of Scott winding her up with gullible pranks, enlisting help from his Radio 1 boss and Jo Whiley to construct an elaborate fake scandal designed to make Scott squirm. [...]