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.
Radio 1 asked listeners who they had known before fame and heard that Ramesh Ranganathan had once been a teacher and Barack Obama had been known as Barry at school in Hawaii. [...]
Sigrid tried to identify songs before Shazam could, winning on George Ezra and Calvin Harris but losing on Adele and Stormzy before Radio 1 persuaded her into Don’t Stop Believin’. [...]
Ask Me Anything found Alan, a man who deliberately licked aircraft before boarding, while Scott became obsessed with Marie Kondo and listeners joined the working-from-home club. [...]
Chris replayed an extended cut of Olivia’s Benidorm conception, released the unedited version of Jack’s TripAdvisor-style dating review and looked back at another archive favourite. [...]
After hearing her brother Tom’s Travelodge conception story, Olivia demanded her own family history and learned her parents chose the beach after dancing in Benidorm to Horny. [...]
Scott and Chris filled their accidentally advertised “big announcement” with listener news until Emily Atack rang to reveal that Innuendo Bingo was returning for 2019. [...]
A Hampshire cleaner called Theresa May explained the daily problems caused by sharing the Prime Minister’s name, while Scott and Chris still could not remember the “big announcement” advertised for the following day. [...]
A listener asked Scott and Chris to rescue a hen weekend, leading to games including Pin the Trunks on the Hunk, life drawing and enough novelty anatomy to make Chris uncomfortable. [...]
The first Friday Extra Show of 2019 expanded Lewis Capaldi’s studio visit, gave Tom’s Travelodge conception story extra detail and reopened the archive for Chris’s spectacularly awkward Jennifer Aniston interview. [...]
Lewis Capaldi turned a Miley Cyrus karaoke joke into a genuine performance, while Tom’s dad revealed that Toy Story, Marvin Gaye and a Ford Escort eventually led to conception in Travelodge room 24. [...]