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.
A listener with a French girlfriend helped Scott test the theory that almost anything sounds more attractive when said with a French accent. [...]
The fired-chicken card saga escalated when Scott’s flatmate bought the dismissed colleague fried chicken as a leaving gift, creating a whole new reason to worry about the message. [...]
A leaving card went badly wrong when Scott’s flatmate learned a colleague had been dismissed and tried to alter “sorry you got fired” with the word “chicken”. [...]
The show imagined an entire X Factor week built around Muppet songs, investigated whether a lift voice really belonged to Judi Dench and inserted Westwood into University Challenge. [...]
A conversation about restaurant cheese boards escalated into stories of elaborate serving methods before Ray Winstone arrived for a guest chat. [...]
The relentlessly cheerful Same Difference were challenged to keep complimenting each other until one of them finally had nothing nice left to say. [...]
An American listener compiled her mother’s eccentric voicemail messages into a recording, inspiring stories about the strange messages parents leave when they think nobody is listening. [...]
Beyoncé’s Live Lounge appearance and single-glove Sasha Fierce image prompted Scott to test whether putting on one glove could transform his own personality. [...]
Listeners imagined music following them through ordinary moments while one choice turned Dirty Dancing’s “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” into a personal soundtrack. [...]
Scott’s proposed Leona Lewis song returned in a more polished remix before strangers were asked whether they would actually pay money for it. [...]