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 admitted saying he flossed until his hygienist examined his mouth and asked whether he had been lying, prompting Radio 1 to invent a dental shame bell. [...]
Listeners were horrified to learn Bangers' map-dart moment was radio smoke and mirrors, while Charlotte won VIP status after revealing both a nature-reserve sex sighting and a secret career as a Greggs hand model. [...]
Will's already damaged voice was even worse after England's semi-final, so Scott made him sing Beyoncé's Listen before Maria Sharapova faced goats, pigs and a church dog in Animal Tennis. [...]
Sixteen-year-old Eve surprised her form tutor to thank him for being a father figure through two disrupted school years, leaving teacher and pupil emotional on air. [...]
Scott and Chris embraced “working from garden”, used Eurovision songs as football goal stings and asked Lynette whether football was finally coming home. [...]
Lynette had to cut short her Tinder judging to make a hearing appointment, while a Maya Jama Big Weekend rumour went into Real or No Real and Bangers travelled to Crieff. [...]
The familiar “someone's knocking at the door” advert turned out to use a real Wings song, while Granny Tinder learned about foam parties and Radio 1 investigated the strange fashion for nude candles. [...]
Scott's SAS-style attempt to avoid appearing on a work call failed completely, before Sammy revealed she once removed a blocked toilet poo and threw it into the neighbour's garden. [...]
Scott and Chris announced another Comic Relief Lolathon before “It Was All Going Well Until…” produced a woman who separately dated two brothers and Jo discovered a mysterious loop in her van. [...]
Sandra Mills treated vaccination day like an outing, Lynette preferred Barack Obama to a young Joe Biden and Ali Plumb turned Bangers into a three-way movie battle. [...]