Category: Show Diary
Adele's online queue causes fury
Listeners spend hours in an online queue for Adele tickets, only to see the concerts sell out or their payment page refresh at the decisive moment. Scott threatens a temporary protest against playing Adele, although he accepts that the chaos is a consequence of her popularity rather than anything she has done.
The waiting extends beyond music. Medical student Matt has refreshed a page since 10 in the morning for examination results that still have not appeared, l [...]
Greg James returns to the wet area
Greg James appears in a grey suit that instantly reveals every drop of water. His latest Innuendo Bingo includes Lewis Hamilton's mother getting a little bit down her, a spy watching Dak Prescott come and pull out, Richard Madeley's late-afternoon nosh and a Grand Designs stream delivering pleasure downstairs.
The closing National Lottery clip repeatedly confirms that the answer is “head”, preserving Greg's position as the king of the game. Chris's improvised o [...]
Cardiff orders a much smaller tree
Cardiff Castle's main Christmas tree was announced as 40 metres tall but turns out to be 40 feet. Against the castle it resembles a Ferrero Rocher ornament, and nearby reindeer appear disproportionately large.
Listener John has seen it in person and confirms that the tree is pleasant but hardly an enormous city landmark. Scott calculates that a genuine 40-metre tree would stand close to the height of the Statue of Liberty, making the original promise implausibl [...]
Professor Green investigates Danny Dyer
Danny Dyer's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? reveals a line back to royalty and introduces another professor during his visit to the Tower Hamlets archive. Scott and Chris immediately hear the title as an invitation to imagine Professor Green conducting the research.
That sends them through other people who appear to share the name, including a children's entertainer with Jewish party songs and numerous actual academics called Professor Green. The sho [...]
Another BBC opportunity emerges
Chris's Celebrity Mastermind appearance, with Scott as his specialist subject, is still awaiting its Christmas broadcast when another booking arrives. This time Scott and Chris can take part together in Glasgow on a returning programme involving robots.
They initially try not to name it, but the clues and conversation with Sam McTrusty make the answer obvious: they are filming Robot Wars. The sleeper train back to London is almost as exciting to Scott as operating [...]
The Google Game becomes revealing again
The opening phrase for the Google Game is “Is it cheating if…”, immediately sending Scott and Chris into celebrity lists, dreams and fancy dress. They agree that dreaming about somebody famous is harmless, until the famous person is sufficiently accessible to become a real possibility.
Chris once responded to his girlfriend admiring Ryan Gosling by choosing Pixie Lott, a name much closer to Radio 1. The actual search suggestions include kissing another per [...]
Chris invites the wrong waitress
Chris assumes both First Dates waitresses are appearing and publicly asks Laura Tott why she is not coming. Only CiCi Coleman has actually been booked, leaving Laura to reply that she is still waiting for her invitation.
CiCi explains that the restaurant team have become a family and remembers the contestant who tried to move Laura into his date's chair while the actual date visited the toilet. She also discusses the Wolf of Worthing and his extraordinary joke ab [...]
The Bromley parade eventually arrives
Scott switches on Bromley's Christmas lights after spending a very long time filling on stage while the parade slowly travels along the high street. He thanks the Snow Queen for her performance and Mayor Ian for an extensive conversation, although Ian refuses to let him try on the mayoral chain.
With Chris away, Scott turns the whole programme loose for a large Whooo Game. Red-eye photographs, ringing once for a call back, inflatable neon furniture, free toy [...]
LL Cool J enters the 1950s
Scott replays what may be the worst answer ever given on The Chase. Asked who had a 1950s number one with “Stranger in Paradise”, contestant David responds “LL Cool J” before the correct answer, Tony Bennett, arrives.
The pressure of the studio explains an answer from the first name that entered his head, but Scott cannot stop imagining LL Cool J launching his career decades early. It also confirms the programme's old rule that the most extraordinary multiple-choice op [...]
Bish Bash Bosh returns to the studio
Chris meets producer and DJ Majestic before an evening watching football with Sir Dossa and Chango the Beast. The unplanned combination works so well that, after Chris leaves, Majestic and Sir Dossa go directly to a studio and rerecord “Bish Bash Bosh”.
Chris hears the new production and says the original now sounds like the slow, unremixed version of an old song. He promises to find a way of playing their all-night collaboration, astonished that his universi [...]