Scott Mills
Every write-up and feature centred on Scott Mills, from his Radio 1 afternoon show with Chris Stark through his Radio 2 afternoon slot to the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, covering games, pranks, interviews and daily goings-on across the years.
Scott and Chris collected songs which listeners believed brought them bad luck, Gemini’s dad reviewed more Love Island men and Luke Kempner’s Donald Trump tried to stay at a Blackpool pub called the Castle Hotel. [...]
Scott returned from a suspiciously civilised Prague weekend, Luke Kempner’s Donald Trump tried to book a presidential haircut and Ask Me Anything introduced Jenga inventor Leslie Scott. [...]
Scott and Chris relaunched the autobiographical Tap End archive, explaining how Chris once realised at 24 that he had spent his entire life lying in the bath the wrong way round with his head beside the taps. [...]
Scott and Chris imagined Freya Ridings as a garage artist, celebrated a personal Sean Paul tweet and sent Megan home with a Stark Guide to Norwich after Big Weekend. [...]
Scott and Chris handed Anne-Marie’s interview to Lewis Capaldi, who asked whether she sweated when putting clothes on and proved he could be as entertaining interviewing a pop star as being interviewed himself. [...]
Scott and Chris returned from Middlesbrough with lost voices, Jax Jones disguised himself as “Jake from Newsbeat” to ask festivalgoers about his own set and Huw Edwards joined for a post-Big Weekend interview. [...]
The final Friday Extra Show returned to Big Weekend Norwich in 2015, where Chris secretly turned Scott into “Mr Salamander” and phoned local businesses pretending Taylor Swift needed bowling shoes and Olly Murs required emergency waxing. [...]
Max’s mum Sarah read from a 1998 Budapest journal explaining how she discovered she was ovulating, called Simon on his way to the airport and ordered him home instead of letting him fly to Prague. [...]
Listeners relived the days of paying several pounds for tiny phone versions of pop hits, Bamboleo received a polyphonic makeover and one employee discovered his boss was sending dirty messages from the company Instagram. [...]
Pet psychic Jackie tried to explain why Natasha’s cat Clive stared at her through the shower glass, while old polyphonic ringtones returned and Sam’s fake-girlfriend plan was secretly turned against him. [...]