Blow Your Own Trumpet
Moments of pride and showing off, from listener boasts and confessions to presenters admitting their own tricks and mishaps, spanning the Radio 1 years into Radio 2.
Chris expanded the Love Island manifestation theory into a months-long listener experiment, while Don't Look It Up tackled the unexpectedly serious question of which animals can fart. [...]
Snoring, holidays, ukulele serenades and socially distanced gigs convinced almost the whole team Alex and Christina were a couple — but they were identical twin sisters. [...]
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. [...]
Scott briefly thought his gym shoes had been stolen before Italian restaurateur Franco was deliberately wound up with cold red wine, cream in carbonara and other culinary crimes. [...]
A friend tried to catch her own poo with toilet paper in a public cubicle, dropped it and watched it roll under the door into the communal area. [...]
Easy Life listened back to their first Live Lounge and immediately shouted “mistake” at themselves, while Rob finally landed a bakery job after six weeks of applications. [...]
Listeners revealed even Coldplay gigs could involve cups of urine flying through the crowd, while Scott and Chris debated whether nightclub photographers should survive reopening unchanged. [...]
Scott gave the Premier League table a full Official Chart countdown, Naked Attraction audio-description outtakes exposed how hard it was to stay serious and one listener's wet wound nearly broke him. [...]
Channel 4 and the RNIB invited Scott and Chris to narrate an episode of Naked Attraction, just as Scott discovered his Live Laugh Love toilet sign had vanished from Radio 1. [...]
Scott and Chris reacted to Annie Mac ending 17 years at Radio 1, while Chris Hughes revealed his racehorse Annie Mc was also taking time out in a field for the summer. [...]