Tag: 2007
Scott and the team play back a selection of the week's most bizarre and awkward voicemail messages left on the Flirt Divert answerphone, including someone confessing they thought the caller was "disgusting looking" and a message that bears a suspicious resemblance to Mike Skinner from The Streets. [...]
Scott arrives with an unexplained hickey on his neck, and despite an on-air competition where the team tries to get love bites, nobody can figure out who actually gave it to him. Meanwhile, listeners share stories about sweet old ladies who shamelessly push in at bus stops and supermarket queues. [...]
Scott challenges the entire team to acquire a love bite by the start of the next show, leading to hilarious debate about Hoover suction and squash-ball alternatives. Plus: an unlikely Eminem impersonator from BBC Radio Stoke. [...]
Scott investigates whether it's physically possible to crush a tin can with the power of breasts alone, while also solving the mystery of a mysterious pair of black knickers found in the BBC Radio 1 corridor. [...]
Laura's obsessed with a new BBC3 wedding show where a groom picks his bride's dress without her input — and it goes about as well as you'd expect. Plus the Flirt Divert answer phone returns with more awkward dating messages. [...]
Scott attempts to play Britney Spears' debut album *Baby One More Time* in full without interruption, inspired by Zane Lowe's Masterpieces feature — but management shut him down after barely one and a half tracks. [...]
Laura auditions to be P. Diddy's new assistant on the Oprah Winfrey Show and doesn't get the job, leading to a heated on-air debate about Scott's actual salary and a genuinely bizarre discussion about redesigning the week with 28-hour days. [...]
Scott sends a florist an elaborate prison escape message to put on a flower card, and amazingly they write every word without question. Plus, Flirt Divert catches some brilliantly awkward chat-up lines, and the team discover a woman even more Welsh than last week's standout. [...]
Scott, Jo and Chappers star in their own ridiculous Deidre's Video Casebook sketch about office crushes and landladies, then expose the South Wales gossip Laura in a record-breaking Loose Lips feature that clocks in at just 27 seconds. [...]
A chaotic Tuesday of Flirt Divert messages, existential chat about how people want to be buried (Chappers surprisingly reveals he'd like to be frozen), and an oddly panicked segment where no one at Radio 1 can confirm whether Wendy Richards is still alive. [...]