Chelmsford gets Radio 2 in the Park
Scott opened the week with the major announcement that Radio 2 in the Park would take place in Chelmsford.
The location reveal was built through clues, listener guesses and Scott’s own obvious excitement about bringing the station’s biggest live weekend to Essex. He repeatedly returned to the fact that Chelmsford was close enough to familiar places from his own life, while still offering the scale required for the event.
The programme invited listeners to begin planning travel and accommodation even before the full line-up had been announced. Messages arrived from people celebrating a major music event coming to their area and from others already trying to work out how to secure tickets.
The Easiest Quiz: Chris from Basildon
Chris from Basildon became the first contestant of the week. He explained that the first time he heard the Easiest Quiz he was driving to hospital for the birth of his son, Rory, who was now nearly three months old.
Scott tried to persuade him that the baby should have been called Scott, before accepting Chris’s point that the name had been decided before the quiz existed. Chris, a teacher, added that he had never taught a child called Scott and said the name was becoming as rare as Gary or Keith.
Chris admitted that he usually struggled most with questions asking him to name a famous person because his mind went to people he knew personally. The quiz immediately tested that weakness by asking for a famous David, which he answered with David Beckham, followed by a famous Jim.
The second question stopped him. Chris could not produce a famous Jim quickly enough and complained that the quiz had deliberately targeted the exact weakness he had just described. Scott reminded him that he had no control over the questions, while the quiz replied that it had even given him time to revise.
Chris’s short run set the first score of the week and supplied the programme with an early example of how a simple question could become impossible as soon as the contestant had explained why it worried them.
Good Morning Minute and Birthday Game
The Good Morning Minute returned with listeners giving their name, location and one detail from Monday morning. The Birthday Game later offered three former number-one records to another listener celebrating on the day of the Chelmsford announcement.
2 June 2025: Vernon Kay
The handover returned to Chelmsford and the scale of Radio 2 in the Park, with Scott warning that more line-up news would follow throughout the week.
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