Tag: December 2018
The last archive special returned to Chris’s first week at Southampton University, where he walked in on a flatmate wearing Chris’s sock in a place it was never designed to go and later ended a toga night on stage wearing almost nothing. [...]
Chris remembered running across an autobahn, doing a German radio link and trying to impress Karen with a perfectly thrown sausage which hit a man on a carnival float and made her furious. [...]
The archive special revisited Chris taking Scott to Kavos, receiving his first-ever massage completely naked and making appreciative noises through the wall while Scott tried to tell him what he was doing wrong. [...]
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. [...]
Radio 1 played the final 75 seconds of Mistletoe and Wine after complaints, Scott prepared his Strictly crab for Greg James’s young-carers party and Chris rescued the team night out with a 55-year-old belly dancer. [...]
David Guetta was stunned when fake superfan Steve knew his old Paris club, debut album, obscure early collaborations and even his real first name, while Scott cut Cliff Richard off halfway through Mistletoe and Wine. [...]
After months of tennis-ball notes, market research and Claude Littner’s disapproval, François finally brought the only finished bottle of the show’s unisex perfume into Radio 1. [...]