Bamboleo Wednesday
Every Wednesday on Scott Mills and Chris Stark's Radio 1 show, the Gipsy Kings classic Bamboleo became the soundtrack to a few minutes of gloriously pointless chat between the pair. These articles collect the nonsense, the running jokes and the moments it got out of hand.
Lynette became unavailable for the first time in a year because she was socialising with neighbours, while lockdown couples explained whether moving in together after only weeks had ended in love or disaster. [...]
Scott and Chris embraced “working from garden”, used Eurovision songs as football goal stings and asked Lynette whether football was finally coming home. [...]
Lynette rejected names including OAP-E and OnlyGrans for her proposed exercise podcast before returning to the serious business of swiping through Zofia's Tinder. [...]
Radio 1 management's warning over extra-long Rasputin only made listeners demand more, while Lynette feared a sailor would leave Zofia with “a girl in every port”. [...]
Lynette received an actual response from the BBC Director-General after lobbying for Chris to appear on Celebrity MasterChef, while Chris admitted he had never smuggled a budgie. [...]
Scott imagined Joel Corry and Blossoms disappearing beneath months of uncut hair, while Lynette's Zoom voice somehow reminded the team of both the Queen and Skepta. [...]
Aaron's cryptocurrency and expensive-watch profile failed to impress Lynette, while Chris tried to work out whether Innuendo Bingo could return without anybody actually spitting at each other. [...]
Lynette accidentally turned seven Scrabble letters into a radio puzzle, while listeners supplied more evidence that Tom Grennan was one of the nicest people in music. [...]
Lynette remained unimpressed by another batch of dating profiles, while Scott and Chris discovered it can be surprisingly hard to tell a rapper's stage name from an accountant's surname. [...]
Scott's new garden dog toilet promised to dissolve poo, which naturally led him to wonder whether he should personally test it before Teddy used it. [...]