Bangers
Bangers was a popular music game on Scott Mills's BBC Radio 1 afternoon show, where Scott and Chris Stark each championed a track and listeners decided which one deserved to be played. These articles revisit the musical battles, questionable choices and arguments that made the feature a favourite.
Chris’s Friday Extra Show found Kitty, who wrote an angry nightclub review while still inside the club only to discover weeks later that she had posted the whole rant on the local kebab shop’s page. [...]
Chris returned from organising Dugs’s Newcastle stag do, Bangers statistician Keon proved Chris was really winning and local news introduced Harriet, an Irish donkey whose owner believed she could sing opera. [...]
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Courtney learned she had been conceived in her grandad’s bedroom while her parents were supposedly watching television, and Scott’s frustration with the Radio 1 phone system nearly became a full meltdown. [...]
With Chris 24 hours into his Instagram break, listener Helen offered to help turn the show’s perfume idea into a real fragrance and introduced the possibility of working with a professional “nose”. [...]
Scott and Chris carried out market research for their possible fragrance and discovered listeners associated the programme with smells including new tennis balls, while old Zante friend BJ unexpectedly appeared on television. [...]
Freya Ridings was instructed to sing Lost Without You with more literal emotional meaning, while Scott wondered whether only sufficiently posh listeners could actually hear parts of the session. [...]
Adam had the entry stamp for his local Barnsley nightclub permanently tattooed onto his hand during a holiday, while an elderly horse called Johnty became the latest animal to judge Bangers. [...]
Chris had to stop around six miles into the Cardiff Half Marathon, doctors explained the reality of runner’s tummy, and listeners introduced Scott to the strange world of phantom flatmates. [...]
The Friday Extra Show revisited Becca’s millennium conception story, celebrated Radio 1’s background music as genuine bangers and became unusually candid when listener Sasha asked how Chris remained positive while struggling off air. [...]