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 used mouldable beads as emergency lockdown dentistry, a listener discovered the ultimate lock-in by living above a pub and Calum and Luke from 5SOS took over Radio 1 from their kitchens in Los Angeles. [...]
Scott and Chris took over Radio 1 Breakfast, Chappers returned to referee a football rivalry using rock, paper, scissors and a dog delivering wine became one of lockdown’s most useful key workers. [...]
Tom Ogden wrote new Blossoms songs from his back room, lockdown supermarket slots became harder to get than Glastonbury tickets and Chris revisited the German exchange built almost entirely around a shared love of sausage and mash. [...]
Alex Gaskarth joined from his Maryland farm with three baby goats, Bella thanked housemate Pavel for caring for her while she isolated and Tap End returned to Chris’s legendary university toga story. [...]
With Chris broadcasting from home and the show now starting earlier, Maisie Peters became one of the first Bored and Famous guests, Ask Me Anything found a swear-word expert and Tap End revisited Chris’s disastrous school assembly. [...]
Dua Lipa brought Break My Heart to the show as Future Nostalgia moved forward, told Scott and Chris what isolation looked like for her and gave Radio 1 a burst of uncomplicated pop excitement. [...]
Rylan’s brilliantly fooled Superfan Steve encounter came back from the archive, another handwritten letter reached the show and the team began confronting the fact nobody could get a normal haircut. [...]
Dickie’s unmistakable laugh came back for another round of listener jokes, Gemma Collins’s Superfan Steve encounter returned from the archive and Scott tried to recruit Chris into a 10am home booty blast. [...]
Scott and Chris launched a no-Googling quiz for a nation spending more time at home, an English National Opera singer performed for his street and Ask Me Anything met record-breaking window cleaner Terry Turbo. [...]
Musicians copied the window and balcony performances spreading across Europe, Tom Grennan proved again that he really was one of pop’s nicest people and home-working emails revealed staff trying to steal office chairs. [...]