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.
The final Friday Extra Show returned to Big Weekend Norwich in 2015, where Chris secretly turned Scott into “Mr Salamander” and phoned local businesses pretending Taylor Swift needed bowling shoes and Olly Murs required emergency waxing. [...]
Max’s mum Sarah read from a 1998 Budapest journal explaining how she discovered she was ovulating, called Simon on his way to the airport and ordered him home instead of letting him fly to Prague. [...]
Listeners relived the days of paying several pounds for tiny phone versions of pop hits, Bamboleo received a polyphonic makeover and one employee discovered his boss was sending dirty messages from the company Instagram. [...]
Pet psychic Jackie tried to explain why Natasha’s cat Clive stared at her through the shower glass, while old polyphonic ringtones returned and Sam’s fake-girlfriend plan was secretly turned against him. [...]
Scott and Chris returned from Eurovision week, processed Watford’s FA Cup defeat and the UK’s Eurovision result, then imagined Chris managing Middlesbrough with Scott as his suspiciously gentle assistant. [...]
The 2013 archive brought back Lorraine Kelly’s Innuendo Bingo, the unsolved mystery of a contact saved as Fish Pie Sue and Chris’s astonishing £25 holiday. [...]
David’s dad Ed revealed that passing a French fire-service ambulance exam led to celebrations in the back of an emergency vehicle, while Radio 1 auditioned fake girlfriends for Sam’s nan Patricia. [...]
Liverpool’s comeback stunned Radio 1, an actress replaced Chris on Bangers, Bastille heard another ukulele cover and HRVY faced the new game Fan or Animal. [...]
The new royal baby sent Chris outside Buckingham Palace hunting for the most committed fan, while Huddersfield received a Stark Guide featuring rugby league and Britain’s largest nodding dog. [...]
The Friday archive went back to 2012 for Mob Wives, mafia-name generators and a One Xtra documentary about larger rappers, producing Scott’s new identity: Scotty the Fish. [...]