Love Island
Every Love Island mention from across the site, spanning the Radio 1 afternoon show years through to Radio 2, covering listeners' stories, contestant chats and the show's cultural chatter alongside the usual studio antics.
Henry landed in Scott and Chris's imaginary Sydney and met an aggressively Australian local, while Laura Whitmore mixed from her unfinished garden bar and explained lockdown life with Iain Stirling. [...]
Luke T and Siânnise Fudge supplied a lockdown mix after spending almost no time apart since leaving Love Island, while Scott decided he might actually look cuter in lockdown and the archive replayed Chris’s life-changing Mila Kunis interview. [...]
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. [...]
Radio 1 staged an awkward couple’s argument in a BBC café and had Becky Hill appear beside them singing Better Off Without You, while a dating-app settings mistake explained a year of terrible matches. [...]
Scott and Chris took Greta Thunberg’s photograph onto Stupid Street, where guesses included Hillary Clinton and a Love Island contestant, before listeners revealed their most painful mistaken-stranger encounters. [...]
Love Island’s music choices impressed Scott, a Stark Guide tried to relaunch Weston-super-Mare and James’s mum Sam revealed that a fancy-dress party ended with his parents camping on a bouncy castle. [...]
Curtis Pritchard met the show’s unnervingly knowledgeable fake fan, while Scott struggled with a “Nan iPad”, got told off for underfilling a supermarket salad box and Chris gave Slough the Stark Guide treatment. [...]
Dev Griffin was announced for Strictly Come Dancing, Chris accused Scott of becoming secretly crabby about another Radio 1 DJ entering his old territory and an ancient locker clear-out exposed years of forgotten show debris. [...]
Chris’s dislike of his teeth led to cheap mould-at-home veneers, dentists immediately objected and hand model Nina Taylor revealed she could earn up to £5,000 a day without showing her face. [...]
Radio 1 launched Secret Snog, where callers tried to identify a celebrity kissing an object, while professional bridesmaid Tiffany Wright explained how being paid to join a bridal party actually worked. [...]