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.
BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra are working on a new special event for 2012 set to be based in London around the time of the Olympic games.
The outdoor festival is being spearheaded by Jason Carter, who has been working behind the scenes on BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend over the past few years.
Little detail has been given about the event but it is intended to deliver something "extremely special" to the young people living in the boroughs around the Olympics site in East London.
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A short Christmas Eve source captured Scott reading messages from listeners still at desks, on motorways and revising for January exams while everyone else appeared to have finished for the holiday. [...]
Rough vocal clips had to be identified as either X Factor performances or Radio 1 Live Lounge sessions, with Beyoncé and Glasvegas among the voices in the mix. [...]
A listener who smelled toast feared the show’s spontaneous-combustion myth, while Beccy’s Classifieds offered a life-size cardboard horse and a used toilet seat. [...]
A 30-second deep-filled mince-pie challenge shared the final Friday before Christmas with the deliberately stupid question of what happens if you spill carpet cleaner. [...]
The team moved from mince-pie games to a cling-film present prank and stories about wrapping an entire person in Christmas paper. [...]
Madonna’s divorce settlement inspired a brutally practical street question about marrying her for £60 million, while one commuter arrived in a suit and full reindeer antlers. [...]
Listeners admitted buying jumpers, collars and even fish-tank treasure for pets, while Scott questioned whether animals understood any part of the Christmas gift ritual. [...]
A colleague was charged an extra 50p after squeezy cheese appeared on chips without being requested, leading Scott to discover that many listeners did not even know the product existed. [...]
After appearing on the National Lottery with Tom Jones, Scott demonstrated the radio skill of talking perfectly to the start of a record, using Perry Como and Elton John. [...]