Category: Show Diary
Scott kicks off the show with the Chinese Takeaway Game, challenging listeners to guess dish number 10 from Ned's Noodles in London for a free delivery dinner — a feature that stretches across much of the episode with multiple rounds and eventual success. [...]
Danny Howard stands in for Grimly as the team discusses whether Laura might be pregnant, leading to an on-air pregnancy test, while also debating whether to burn S Club 7 records in protest over Jade Goody's Big Brother controversy. [...]
The team debuts a brand new feature designed to finally make Laura cry, after years of trying and failing to reduce her to tears on air — and they surprisingly succeed with an unexpectedly emotional video clip. [...]
Scott and the team explore a dating website designed for cat lovers to find romantic matches, fielding caller Mrs. X who admits her cats have sabotaged previous relationships, while also running their signature "Pointless Survey" asking the public which celebrity they'd eat on a desert island. [...]
Scott digs into his own embarrassing archive from his Power FM days at 16, playing back cringeworthy recordings of himself as a young music journalist interviewing a hopeful pop singer named Steve Paris. [...]
Scott and the team hit the streets with a silly new game testing whether various excuses actually get you to the front of a supermarket queue, with increasingly absurd results. [...]
Scott triumphs in an elaborate texting prank, Gemma accidentally says "I love you" to her three-day boyfriend via the blind text game, and Scott reveals a mortifying story about a radio DJ being sick at Natalie Imbruglia's party. [...]
Laura, a member of the show's production team, reaches day seven of quitting smoking — and the whole show has a betting pool running on when her body will react. Meanwhile, Scott and the team discover the world of Susan Jeffers self-help audiobooks, and gift Scott a rather optimistic CD called "Bay Magnet" designed to improve his pulling power. [...]
Katie rings in to confess she found 11 private photos of Emmerdale's Myleene Klass in a bikini on her dad's laptop—and Scott's team call her father Doug at work to confront him live on air in a hilarious sting that ends with an unexpected thank you. [...]
Scott launches the "I Love You" text game, where listeners blind-text "I love you" to a random contact in their phone book—with predictably awkward results—and takes a call from a caller who accidentally commissioned a black and white painting of Welsh footballer Barry Island instead of Scarface. [...]