Tag: February 2020
The UK’s Eurovision entry sent Scott into full rallying-cry mode, listeners travelling across Europe were recruited as unofficial campaigners and Scott and Chris confronted more embarrassing audio from their early radio careers. [...]
Listener Jamie asked Radio 1 to stop colleagues waiting directly outside the only unisex toilet, while Chris replayed Scott’s frantic 1998 radio voice and Shape of You appeared in German. [...]
Scott discovered foreign interviewers asking Lewis Capaldi questions British radio might avoid, heard Someone You Loved in Spanish and learned BBC Sounds could apparently reach some modern hearing aids. [...]
Love Island broke Scott’s sacred Bamboleo rule, listeners revealed the words they had muted online, professional stag-and-hen organiser Andrew explained how his team road-tested weekends and DJs were challenged to put donk on the national anthem. [...]
Scott and Chris put on Sherlock Holmes hats, followed clues through dry cleaners, disposable cameras and scrambled voices, and finally discovered Chris Ramsey and Alan Carr had locked Greg away after the BRITs. [...]
Greg James failed to appear for Breakfast after the BRITs, then revealed he had been blindfolded, driven for more than an hour and locked in a stark room while Radio 1 tried to identify his two captors. [...]
Chris’s annual BRITs clothing panic ended when he finally discovered click-and-collect before midday, while Scott’s surprise guests turned out to be This Country stars Daisy May and Charlie Cooper. [...]
Scott and Chris opened with a heartfelt tribute to Caroline Flack before Ask Me Anything introduced Charlie Hamilton, who rebuilt his life by travelling towards the Arctic Circle with his pet ferret Bandit. [...]
Scott and Chris secretly recycled Annie Mac’s intelligent interview questions for Sam Fender, who revealed how Elton John had become a mentor, invited him to his Oscars party and supported him through voice problems. [...]
New Forest cider-maker Dickie returned so listeners could test jokes against his infectious laugh, while one caller prepared to surprise his new girlfriend by meeting her parents for the first time. [...]