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 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 and the team help a listener get revenge on her housemate's loud boyfriend by organizing an elaborate prank call, complete with a "neighbourhood watch" inspection and accusations of animal sacrifice. [...]
A festive edition packed with Santa phoning a naughty child, a round of Play Our Christmas Cards Correctly, the perennially popular mince pie joke, and a compilation of 2006's standout moments including Buckfast Boy and the notorious angry pizza guy. [...]
Chappers spends the afternoon intercepting callers trying to request songs, playing them clips of Jay Goodman and putting them through to Westwood instead of the studio team — much to their confusion and annoyance. [...]
Scott plays a cunning version of the I Love You Game where a caller named Tom tries to get his sister-in-law Claire to say "I love you"—but Claire's been primed in advance to flirt outrageously, leaving Tom convinced she's genuinely coming on to him until the reveal. [...]
Nikki from Big Brother 7 visited the studio for an interview with Scott, and the show played her a prank call featuring clips from her Big Brother diary room entries. [...]
Scott calls a helpful German hotel receptionist claiming to need a real-time translation for an interview with a German footballer's wife — but the "wife" is just Scott playing audio clips, and the phrases he asks translated become increasingly ridiculous and crude. [...]