Prank calls
Wind-ups, hoaxes and stitch-ups from Scott Mills' Radio 1 years through to Radio 2, with unsuspecting callers, colleagues and listeners caught out live on air.
Scott and Chris rang businesses near Glastonbury pretending to arrange celebrity backstage demands, culminating in “Kim Kardashian” requesting around 200 fresh fish fingers. [...]
Chris returned from Bali to discover his automatic email reply had apparently committed him to a four-hour Basildon DJ set and opening a Sheffield bakery dressed as “Chris Pasty”. [...]
Listeners stopped work for the first new Innuendo Bingo in years, with Davina McCall facing Chris on the redesigned set while Radio 1 continued collecting the worst snake-ex stories. [...]
Matt Fincham was bombarded with fake spoilers for Spooks and EastEnders while Scott tried to escape moving a piano with man flu. [...]
Mark Chapman rejected a tearful farewell, received a message from Rafael Benítez and left the studio by announcing that he needed the toilet. [...]
David Gest described Michael Jackson’s private practical jokes, a television séance and an unsuccessful kitchen moonwalk. [...]
David Gest described Michael Jackson’s private practical jokes, a television séance and an unsuccessful kitchen moonwalk. [...]
Scott celebrated a Guardian recommendation before three couples compared the surgery they thought their partners wanted, producing noses, ears, ankles, feet and breasts. [...]
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. [...]
Scott returns with a chaotic edition full of deliberately unfunny "sick jokes" designed to test listeners' sense of humour, plus the return of the posh noise and an ambitious nationwide experiment to disrupt supermarket trolleys using ultrasonic frequencies. [...]