Chris Stark
Chris Stark was Scott Mills' co-host on BBC Radio 1 from 2012 to 2022. He was discovered DJing in Southampton, and became half of one of Radio 1's best-loved double acts until the pair's final show in August 2022. He now co-presents Capital Breakfast with Jordan North and Sian Welby. Here's every show and moment we've written up featuring Chris.
Love Island’s music choices impressed Scott, a Stark Guide tried to relaunch Weston-super-Mare and James’s mum Sam revealed that a fancy-dress party ended with his parents camping on a bouncy castle. [...]
Scott and Chris investigated whether Naked Attraction contestants really received make-up below the waist, collected more Biggest Mug contenders and turned intimate television preparation into Tallywacker Tanning Mist. [...]
Georgia reviewed her first Live Lounge, Britain’s Biggest Mug gathered more contenders and Funny Business reached Howard Wetter at Bedroom Athletics, prompting one of the feature’s most perfectly unfortunate conversations. [...]
Scott and Chris offered a giant mug to the listener willing to confess the worst muggy behaviour, while theme-park designer Andrew Porter explained how rides were built to drop people 80 metres at around 70mph. [...]
Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free became the first station presenter to face Where Do You Think They Were?, as mum Jackie reconstructed a freezing, rain-soaked Glastonbury night spent inside a very warm tent. [...]
Chris’s late-night messages to Alan Shearer came back to haunt him, the National Treasure Generator returned and Meghan Trainor accepted the challenge of singing her own lyrics over somebody else’s melody. [...]
Lewis Capaldi returned at the end of his breakthrough year, performed a deliberately emotional Fairytale of New York and looked back at everything from Someone You Loved to his bank card being declined while buying tequila shots for Sam Smith. [...]
The bonus podcast removed the daytime filter from Lewis Capaldi’s final interview, with strong language, four days off between American and Australian tours and a frank look back at a year neither he nor Radio 1 had expected. [...]
Fans camped outside Radio 1 for Harry Styles, Chris asked him to solve a £10 Secret Santa problem and Rebel Wilson was confronted by an unnervingly knowledgeable “Steve” in the final big celebrity prank before Christmas. [...]
Chris discovered producer Mr Jam had instructed Stormzy to call Scott by the wrong name throughout Monday’s interview, while Ali Plumb supplied deliberately terrible Christmas films and Magnus Carlsson finally reached his annual day. [...]