Tag: Prank calls
Scott receives an email from a listener in York whose new girlfriend crushes a melon between her thighs in the kitchen, prompting an on-air experiment that spirals into callers attempting the same feat from around the country. [...]
A golden compilation episode featuring some of the show's best prank calls and pranks: Darth Vader rings a confused garage, Laura ventures out disguised as a bearded man, and the classic take-away game creates chaos between two Chinese restaurants. [...]
Scott and the team call up real bookshops asking for made-up books with ridiculous titles and author names, catching the booksellers' increasingly baffled responses. [...]
Scott and the team tackle spam emails promising millions, culminating in a brilliant prank call to a real phone number from one of the scam messages — with hilarious consequences. [...]
Scott attempts to reform a rude motorist with a Susan Jeffers self-help tape prank, and then falls victim to an elaborate wind-up from Jo Whiley involving a fake voicemail message recorded on the street. [...]
Scott and the team pose as Castaway producers to interview the four Radio 1 listeners in the running to join the island, asking increasingly outlandish questions about nudity, romance, and crawling into a dead moose carcass — while Laura navigates a blindfolded mouse trap minefield in the studio. [...]
Scott conducts a cheeky social experiment by giving out what listeners think is a Girls Aloud member's phone number, then calls back the men who ring it posing as the band members themselves — with hilariously awkward results. [...]
Scott puts a university to the test to see if they can sing any Christmas carol on request — including The Pogues' famously tricky festive hit. [...]
Scott speaks to Magnus Ramsey from Belfast, who's been mobbed by locals convinced he's a Danny Howard Daily doppelgänger after getting laser eye surgery — and has even been confirmed as a lookalike by the man himself at a Dublin book signing. [...]
Scott tricks Jo Whiley into recording herself saying "I can't wait to make love to you" and then plays the clip to unsuspecting Radio 1 colleagues, while the team tests whether listeners can actually hear the infamous "Young Noise" ringtone that supposedly only young people detect. [...]