BBC Radio 1
Coverage of Scott Mills's BBC Radio 1 years, from classic features and pranks like Flirt Divert to the daily afternoon show with Chris Stark, plus other Radio 1 presenters and shows through to more recent years.
Chris returned from Bali to discover his automatic email reply had apparently committed him to a four-hour Basildon DJ set and opening a Sheffield bakery dressed as “Chris Pasty”. [...]
Sophie Ellis-Bextor talked about falling from her bike, Skepta sampling Murder on the Dancefloor and the songs getting her through lockdown, while listeners confronted boxes and wall displays full of exes. [...]
Jamie Redknapp started the family DJ set alone while Sandra helped Harry onto Zoom, before the playlist jumped from Nelly and DaBaby to Luther Vandross and Frank Sinatra. [...]
Katy Perry talked Tiger King, Carol Baskin and lockdown performances while Scott accidentally used the wrong questions after crashing a listener's Zoom quiz. [...]
Sean Paul chose tracks from Jamaica while Scott invaded listeners' Zoom quizzes and replayed his gloriously patronising vocal-coaching session with Freya Ridings. [...]
Matt, Charlie and James reunited from three different locations while listener Charlotte confessed lockdown had somehow left her attracted to Chris. [...]
A heatwave archive edition revived Scott's home cooling tip, but one successful ice cube under his shorts became a whole cup in the studio and left both him and Chris worrying more about numbness than temperature. [...]
Convinced restaurant musicians must make a fortune, Chris put on a sombrero, a yellow Hulk Hogan moustache and blue sunglasses, sang pop songs at unsuspecting diners and discovered the business model produced precisely no money. [...]
Chris became the emergency third pilot at British Airways' Heathrow training centre, wore Top Gun sunglasses, made an uncertain cabin announcement and eventually put a 747 simulator down with a landing nobody would have applauded. [...]
Another archive week opened with Chris deciding chick-lit looked easy, adopting Joe Jonas as a pen name and producing The Demon Head Mistress before his overheated prose was turned into a track by The Streets. [...]