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.
Scott and Chris called commentator Clive Tyldesley in Moscow to choose between their Bangers tracks before he went on air for England v Croatia. [...]
Scott admitted he had Googled the price of his Christmas gifts and calculated that, excluding Chris’s present, they came to £43.20. [...]
A discussion of private relationship habits escalated until listeners confessed to games involving noses, bodily functions and eating each other's bogeys. [...]
A joke about lobster and lavender pillows made listeners believe that Danny Howard had turned into an international diva. [...]
One listener reported seeing a friend dressed as Gandalf getting off with somebody dressed as a Golden Snitch. [...]
The strange week between Christmas and New Year
Scott and Chris return on Breakfast unsure whether Wednesday still counts as Bamboleo Wednesday when most listeners have only just gone back to work. Chris had to text the previous evening to confirm that the show was really happening before leaving the pub early.
They greet people working through the holiday period and defend themselves against claims that the programme is pre-recorded. A listener heading to New York for her 21st birthday helps by [...]
The Google Game becomes revealing again
The opening phrase for the Google Game is “Is it cheating if…”, immediately sending Scott and Chris into celebrity lists, dreams and fancy dress. They agree that dreaming about somebody famous is harmless, until the famous person is sufficiently accessible to become a real possibility.
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Chris once responded to his girlfriend admiring Ryan Gosling by choosing Pixi [...]
Scott faces the whole country
With Chris travelling to Manchester, Scott plays the Whooo Game against a full bank of listeners. Red-eye photographs, sewing swimming badges onto trunks, Ask Jeeves, “Calm down, dear”, the Sugar Puffs monster and Fort Boyard all receive suitably powerful calls from the past.
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The game continues at such speed that nobody actually runs out of ideas; the clock defeats them i [...]
More jobs face the verdict
After an environmental health officer narrowly earns “hot job” status, more listeners ask for rulings. Richard turns wood into bowls, table legs and spindles, while Kerry fits kitchens and bathrooms and enjoys surprising customers who did not expect a woman to arrive.
Both are approved, but the third caller changes the feature. Sarah runs Twisted Fondant in Winchester, a separate x-rated bakery created so her specialist work would not alarm her ordinary cake customers. [...]
Scott and Chris asked stranded festival-goers whether their satnavs placed them nearer or farther from Glastonbury than the previous caller. [...]