Live Aid at 40
Scott devoted the morning to the 40th anniversary of Live Aid.
The programme replayed archive moments and asked listeners where they had watched the concerts in London and Philadelphia.
Messages described families gathering around televisions, recording performances onto VHS and understanding that the event felt unlike an ordinary music programme.
Queen’s performance and Freddie Mercury’s control of the Wembley crowd remained central to the memories.
Scott also explored the scale of the broadcast, the money raised and the later debates around charity, representation and how the event had been remembered.
The feature balanced nostalgia for an extraordinary television moment with the humanitarian crisis that had prompted it.
Listener memories
Listeners who had attended Wembley described the heat, the long day and the difficulty of understanding how large the global audience had become.
Others remembered being children and realising for the first time that music television could be connected with world events.
Regular features
The Easiest Quiz and Birthday Game continued inside the anniversary edition.
14 July 2025: Vernon Kay
The handover returned to the songs and performances that still defined Live Aid four decades later.
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