SOAK gets soaked
Northern Irish singer SOAK arrived for a game whose result was built into the artist’s name. Scott and Chris had expected the quiet 19-year-old to be a comparatively restrained guest, but the unfamiliar pairing produced one of those Innuendo Bingo editions that worked because nobody knew exactly how the other person would react.
SOAK stayed through the final clip and left properly soaked. Scott promoted the video alongside the recent appearance by Slaves, whose Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman had surprised him by behaving like fans of the programme.
A spare place in Budapest
Chris had received repeated invitations to join a group of strangers on a stag do in Budapest after one member dropped out. He could not rearrange his weekend, so the group put the unused place on eBay instead.
The buyer was Will, who travelled with a toy badger called Seth and appeared entirely relaxed about spending five days with 21 men he had never met. He had found the listing while searching for festival tickets, bid for the trip and only afterwards informed his girlfriend that he was going abroad with a stag party.
Scott struggled to decide which part was strangest: selling a place on a stag do, buying it without knowing anybody, or taking a badger whose presence was already becoming part of the trip. The programme arranged to call Will from Budapest once the weekend had begun.
Sweets, cheese and conservatory tiles
Students emerged from a GCSE maths paper furious with its fictional characters. Hannah’s sweets, Jane’s cheese and Mary’s conservatory tiles had become shared enemies for candidates across the country.
The names trended online as thousands of pupils complained about the same calculations. Listener Flora described the exam as a nightmare, while Scott and Chris enjoyed the speed with which invented people in a question paper had attracted genuine national resentment.
Greg James plays Real or No Real
Greg James joined the programme for Real or No Real before previewing his own show. By then, the ordinary quiz facts had to compete with a much less believable true story: a man with a toy badger really was on his way to Budapest after buying a stranger’s holiday on eBay.
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