Charity Shop Sue’s workplace clinic
Charity Shop Sue joined Scott to answer listeners’ workplace problems, drawing on what the programme described as years managing a charity shop in Bulwell, Nottingham.
Her fictionalised career history also included work as a fashion stylist in Paris and Milan, appearances on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, commercials and a recent trip to the Brit Awards red carpet.
Listeners brought dilemmas involving difficult colleagues, managers, rotas and office behaviour. Sue approached each one with total confidence and little interest in diplomatic language.
Scott treated her advice as though it were a formal management consultancy, while Sue repeatedly returned to hierarchy, standards and the importance of making sure staff knew who was in charge.
The segment allowed Sue’s character to expand beyond short online clips, with each workplace problem becoming a miniature scene involving rules, warnings and imagined disciplinary action.
Larry Lamb
Larry Lamb joined Scott for a separate interview about his current work and a career ranging from Gavin & Stacey to EastEnders.
The conversation revisited Archie Mitchell and the continuing response to one of the soap’s most notorious villains. Scott asked how often people still approached Larry about the character’s death.
Larry also discussed Gavin & Stacey, the affection surrounding the programme and the unusual experience of returning to characters whose relationships had developed across many years.
The interview covered acting, family and the contrast between being associated with warm comedy and with a character remembered for cruelty.
Larry stayed relaxed about the audience claiming ownership of particular roles, recognising that the strongest programmes became attached to people’s own family memories and Christmas routines.
The Birthday Game: Denise in Portugal
Denise turned 50 while staying in Faro with her husband. The trip followed a busy celebration at a farm, where friends and family had taken part in competitive sheep herding.
She told Scott she would have stopped immediately at Ryan’s unused choice from Monday, McFly’s 5 Colours in Her Hair. Her own musical preference leaned towards upbeat records she could sing along with.
One of Denise’s choices was Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine, the 1969 number one first recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Scott reminded her that Marvin’s version had spent three weeks at the top of the chart.
8 April 2025: Vernon Kay
The handover returned to Charity Shop Sue’s management advice and Larry Lamb’s memories, while Scott looked ahead to Remember Monday returning after their Eurovision announcement.
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