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.
Stephen Graham turned Santa Claus Is Coming to Town into a warning, while Chris’s dad performed a parking dry run before a family trip to see Lewis Capaldi. [...]
Lewis Capaldi joined Chris for a soaking Innuendo Bingo while Scott announced that Tyson Fury would deliver motivational words to listeners facing difficult moments. [...]
Daniel Radcliffe faced Innuendo Bingo, listener Nathaniel became an instant Bangers legend and another couple tested whether they would have matched on a dating app. [...]
Saffron Barker faced a new round of Innuendo Bingo, Oxford fresher Rob revealed students could order condoms to their rooms and one listener requested a very specific Matt Edmondson calendar. [...]
Johannes’s mum Jane faced the Fresher Quiz, the Queen’s banana technique shocked Scott and Chris, Camila Cabello reviewed her Live Lounge and Scott’s boyfriend finally moved in. [...]
Scott and Chris collected gloriously rubbish claims to fame before Fresher of the Week Macy’s mum correctly identified the leopard outfit, the toilet-seat nap and the lecture her daughter had missed. [...]
Scott and Chris filled job applications with extinct occupations including sewer-searching toshers and human alarm clocks, while listeners decided how Sophie should answer her midnight university admirer. [...]
Joel Corry had to identify which of three accusations was genuine before apologising to friend Jake, while the show’s fearless intern secretly caught Scott and Chris refusing to correct people who used the wrong names. [...]
Scott and Chris gave human Alexas voice-assistant commands, discovered one had once dated a woman called Siri and sent their fearless new intern to strangers pretending she already knew them. [...]
Jax Jones returned for another Scott Mills game, trying to identify which fan story was genuine, while “Ian the Ian-fluencer” attempted to launch an influencer career with fewer than 200 followers. [...]