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 Devon pub landlady's unforgettable distancing advice joined bottomless-buffet disgrace, a live Pilates class and the return of the Yanny-or-Laurel argument. [...]
Scott and Chris began their Radio 1 Breakfast cover with a quiz distinguishing British cheeses from motorway services, stories of buffet shame and a tour of people who had stopped grooming during lockdown. [...]
Scott revisited the night he confidently named a zebra as something found in the jungle while his dad Pete became a prime-time highlight by impersonating an elephant. [...]
A train passenger falling asleep on Scott inspired an experiment in which Chris blocked a stranger into a BBC canteen booth and pretended to nod off with his face buried in baked beans. [...]
Scott and Chris replayed their tennis-versus-animal quiz in which listener Sophie had to decide whether each noise came from a player such as Maria Sharapova or from a fox, pig, gibbon or goat. [...]
Scott and Chris rang businesses near Glastonbury pretending to arrange celebrity backstage demands, culminating in “Kim Kardashian” requesting around 200 fresh fish fingers. [...]
Beth revealed she had been thrown out of two all-you-can-eat venues, Davina McCall said she would consider hosting Big Brother again and Tap End remembered Chris's mum's red Corsa, Caroline. [...]
Anne-Marie chose Doja Cat, Lauryn Hill and Tion Wayne while revealing her lockdown vegetable patch, before Scott discovered that asking listeners to rank Radio 1 presenters could go badly wrong. [...]
Mike Skinner took Chris through records from Roger Sanchez to The Streets before Tap End revealed how a nervous fresher invented a Sugababes romance and phoned Rachel Stevens. [...]
Stephen Fry recalled being taken off Radio 1 in 1982, explained how “spuffle” spread through voiceover studios and was pitched an unlikely Taylor Swift collaboration at Big Weekend. [...]