Tag: Christmas
Benny Blanco asked Radio 1 listeners what he should do in Britain, heard about a huge paprika kebab “the size of a small baby”, travelled with Alan Titchmarsh and helped make way for a Stark Guide to Dumfries. [...]
After listeners nominated cheating exes for animal revenge, an Essex zoo offered an unnamed python, while Funny Business went international and Scott became obsessed with serious Piers Morgan promo photographs. [...]
Voice-disguised serial returner Lauren spent £3,410 ordering 120 dresses for one Christmas party and returned all but one, before Radio 1 confirmed Davina McCall as the first guest of the new Innuendo Bingo. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Scott and Chris returned for the new year with bizarre January diet tips, a fresh round of Meat2Veg and a complaint that reality TV’s deliberately evil judges had become old-fashioned. [...]
Chris remembered being matched with an accountancy firm despite asking for radio work experience, then losing his lunchtime freedom after classmates threw open bottles of sun cream across a school assembly. [...]
The Christmas Eve archive special returned to Chris’s first university Halloween, where a cheap devil costume, Ghostbusters and a plastic pitchfork ended with him being forcibly removed from Southampton nightclub Icon. [...]
The final Friday Extra Show of the year played the longer version of Sam’s oyster-filled conception story, dealt with complaints about the Cliff Richard complaints and dug out Chris’s brilliantly awkward old Mila Kunis interview. [...]
Sam’s dad Peter reconstructed a Twickenham trip involving a comedy night, oysters, Sancerre, Andy Williams and Bri-Nylon bedsheets, while Scott helped deliver Radio 1’s huge young-carers Christmas party. [...]