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.
Alex Murphy and Chris Walley talked Cork, Ed Sheeran and life after The Young Offenders while Scott discovered contestants really do borrow impressive homes for television dates. [...]
Scott and Chris ran Bangers three times to lift people working at home, interrogated couples who could not explain one another’s jobs and received an unexpected call involving Gareth Malone. [...]
DJ Bontan delivered the promised acid-house remix of No Time To Die, pupils sent Sport Relief encouragement to Phil and Jordan North’s mistake earned a place in the Bamboleo gap. [...]
Listener Jamie asked Radio 1 to stop colleagues waiting directly outside the only unisex toilet, while Chris replayed Scott’s frantic 1998 radio voice and Shape of You appeared in German. [...]
A new BBC press-office colleague happened to be called Pamela Anderson, Scott and Chris collected more accidental touching stories and the pair became suspicious of compliments contestants received on Pointless. [...]
A missing office biscuit multipack became a company-wide investigation, DJs complained about “oi mate” requesters and bricklayer Ben gave Chris an unexpectedly sensual description of his weekly cooking. [...]
Scott and Chris investigated whether Naked Attraction contestants really received make-up below the waist, collected more Biggest Mug contenders and turned intimate television preparation into Tallywacker Tanning Mist. [...]
Fans camped outside Radio 1 for Harry Styles, Chris asked him to solve a £10 Secret Santa problem and Rebel Wilson was confronted by an unnervingly knowledgeable “Steve” in the final big celebrity prank before Christmas. [...]
Chris discovered producer Mr Jam had instructed Stormzy to call Scott by the wrong name throughout Monday’s interview, while Ali Plumb supplied deliberately terrible Christmas films and Magnus Carlsson finally reached his annual day. [...]
Gemma Collins tried to let her supposedly nervous biggest fan win, unaware Chris had all the answers next door, while anonymous Christmas confessions revealed inappropriate crushes and a man convinced he had chosen the wrong twin. [...]