Category: Show Diary
An Apple Pay misunderstanding
Listener Jess asks to use Apple Pay in a corner shop. The assistant disappears and returns with a frozen apple pie, scans it and puts it in the bag. Jess accepts the purchase rather than explain the misunderstanding.
The story arrives as Scott asks listeners to keep sending material from their lives, but with one condition: it has to be true. He suspects some people are inventing increasingly elaborate incidents simply to appear on the programme.
Chloe's friends com [...]
Chris furnishes the house in the wrong order
Chris has moved into his new house but owns almost no furniture. He has no bed, sofa or chairs and has fashioned a temporary seat from a cardboard box. His first proper purchases are a dartboard and a barbecue, which he considers enough to provide entertainment and food.
Scott doubts that barbecuing can sustain him indefinitely and notes that the decision has not impressed Chris's girlfriend. Chris is nevertheless pleased that the water works and beli [...]
Will remembers an old interview
Scott and Chris meet Will Smith and Margot Robbie at a grand London hotel to discuss Suicide Squad. Scott reminds Will that, after an interview roughly ten years earlier, the actor sent him a handwritten thank-you note on personalised paper. Will jokes that he no longer needs to make such gestures now that he has succeeded, while Margot is asked to send a matching note in a few weeks.
The cast describe the film as an immediate assault on the senses that needs to b [...]
A lunch divides Scott and Chris
Chris returns with a pasta-heavy lunch for Scott, who is trying to eat more salad and immediately complains that the meal will make him sleepy. Chris points out the broccoli and accuses Scott of becoming showbiz now that their old lunches no longer meet his standards.
Attention then turns to the next day's interview with Will Smith and Margot Robbie. Scott wants both of them in suits for the occasion and repeatedly stresses the scale of the booking, while Chris wo [...]
London's most rivalled view
Before seeing Suicide Squad, Scott and Chris visit a hotel rooftop bar promising “unrivalled views of London”. They reach the top to find murky weather, a plant and the top of one barely identifiable building. Listeners agree that the view is unrivalled only in its disappointment.
The failed rooftop becomes another example of ordinary things being oversold. Scott posts the evidence online, while Chris supplies his own equally unimpressive “unrivalled view” of Scott.
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Scott returns with a mysterious voicemail
Scott returns from a short break in Madrid and Chris confronts him about an unanswered call and an unusually late voicemail. Scott rarely leaves messages, so Chris assumed something serious had happened. The recording contains little more than laughter and a demand to know what is “amazing”.
Scott explains that he had unexpectedly met his friend Dr Dave, a space scientist who lived nearby. At 12:20 in the morning, however, he no longer remembers what pro [...]
A vacancy in James's love life
James is using so many dating apps that keeping up with the conversations has begun to feel like a second job. His solution is to recruit a dating-app personal assistant who can learn his personality, handle the messages and leave James to attend only the resulting dates. Scott and Chris help him consider applications and the awkward question of whether the assistant should be paid.
A listener reveals that she already has a similar arrangement. Her male colleague h [...]
The cabin crew's hidden bedroom
Scott and Chris finish their run on the Breakfast Show, with the effects of the previous day's Tabasco still being discussed. Chris also reveals something he learned during his flight home from the United States: on a long-haul aircraft, cabin crew may have a concealed rest compartment reached through a small door and narrow stairs.
The space contains tight sleeping berths with pillows and duvets, allowing crew members to rest for an hour or two away from passenge [...]
A humming toilet and an Olympic anniversary
Scott's toilet has begun vibrating and humming loudly enough to become a household mystery. Listeners with plumbing knowledge diagnose a faulty ball valve, and a repair visit is arranged. The programme also looks back four years to the London 2012 opening ceremony and the collective excitement of watching it unfold.
Becky, Jonas and a secret house
Becky Hill speaks to Chris after he followed and unfollowed her on social media in the hope that she would [...]
Breakfast radio and a named tram
Scott and Chris are covering the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from Wednesday to Friday. Chris has been awake since 2:30 in the morning and has still found time to play FIFA, where strangers abuse him through the headset.
Vicky McClure joins them while working nights in Glasgow on BBC thriller The Replacement. Despite her success in Line of Duty and This Is England, she remains based in Nottingham, where a tram has been named in her honour. She discusses the strange pri [...]