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.
Convinced restaurant musicians must make a fortune, Chris put on a sombrero, a yellow Hulk Hogan moustache and blue sunglasses, sang pop songs at unsuspecting diners and discovered the business model produced precisely no money. [...]
Chris became the emergency third pilot at British Airways' Heathrow training centre, wore Top Gun sunglasses, made an uncertain cabin announcement and eventually put a 747 simulator down with a landing nobody would have applauded. [...]
Another archive week opened with Chris deciding chick-lit looked easy, adopting Joe Jonas as a pen name and producing The Demon Head Mistress before his overheated prose was turned into a track by The Streets. [...]
Henry landed in Scott and Chris's imaginary Sydney and met an aggressively Australian local, while Laura Whitmore mixed from her unfinished garden bar and explained lockdown life with Iain Stirling. [...]
Listener Henry's cancelled Australian holiday was rebuilt from Gatwick check-in onwards, complete with an absurdly thorough security search, while Mo Gilligan DJed from his sofa and Chris guided Cardiff after dark. [...]
Mel C proved she really could DJ from home, while Matt Tancock explained life with a name one letter away from the Health Secretary and Chris offered Hull patty butties, Bransholme and The Deep as tourism essentials. [...]
Niall Horan broadcast from his immaculate bathroom alongside robot vacuum Robert, while listeners claimed lockdown glow-ups and Chris reopened his very unofficial guide to the Isle of Man. [...]
A 2010 Rihanna interview returned from the archive, covering Loud, Battleship, Eminem, Katy Perry's Las Vegas hen party and the moment Scott won permission to call her RiRi. [...]
An archive double bill followed Chris from an unsuccessful Batman arena audition to his homemade reality series It's Chris, complete with Duggsy's shaky camerawork and an awkward BBC commissioning meeting. [...]
Scott revisited his first proper encounter with Gemma Collins, from her BMW sales expertise and elaborate night-out routine to the moment hearing Radio 1 talk about her made her feel she had finally made it. [...]