Category: Show Diary
It might not seem like the first place you would think of for a celebration of the 2012 Olympics and all things British - but Hackney has been announced as the hosts for a bigger version of BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend next year.
The premise is very much the same as the Big Weekend with six tents, the live TV and radio coverage, plenty of big names, and a ticket system that favours the local people.
However, this will be different because tickets will be made available to over double the amou [...]
Gemma Collins described pre-drinks, fireworks, Champagne and scanning the nightclub for someone who could “order the wines and all that”. [...]
Scott’s flatmate Fraser was told he had won every Olympic ticket he had applied for, including fictional events such as cow tipping and zebra painting. [...]
Chris’s self-appointed laundry role ended with him finding a pair of women’s knickers stuck in his shorts at the barber’s. [...]
Scott turned The Script’s songs into a continuing drama about a man in a sleeping bag with a drinking problem. [...]
Robbie Savage told Matt Edmondson he deserved the Rising Star award more than Ronnie Wood. [...]
A listener hoped her first child might arrive in time to feature in Scott’s Radio 1 Big Weekend film. [...]
Chris’s hunt for Lady Gaga’s meat-dress maker took him from Lancashire butchers to Los Angeles designer Franc Fernandez. [...]
Sara transformed listeners into royalty with names such as Lady Anne Spud Tongue, then tested a bride-to-be on wedding customs from around the world. [...]
Sara Cox made a Royal Wedding news report about Bucklebury, Berkshire, into a celebration of alliteration and bell-ringing drama. [...]