Chappers spends the afternoon intercepting callers trying to request songs, playing them clips of Jay Goodman and putting them through to Westwood instead of the studio team — much to their confusion and annoyance.
In a prank that has become a Chappers favourite, the show intercepts incoming calls from listeners hoping to get their song requests played on Radio 1. Instead of connecting them to the regular team, Chappers plays callers clips of Jay Goodman responding with increasingly dismissive and bewildering answers — including an odd tangent about Dean Gaffney from EastEnders — leaving the frustrated callers wondering if they’ve reached the right show at all.
The prank escalates when one caller is transferred to Westwood, who greets her with bizarre and inappropriate comments about her health, asking if she’s examined herself and making nonsensical remarks that leave her utterly baffled. The caller’s attempts to simply request a song are repeatedly derailed, with Westwood apparently working from a completely different conversational script than the one she’s using.
Throughout the feature, Scott and the team find genuine amusement in how long they can keep callers on the line before they either hang up in confusion or ask to speak to someone else. It’s the kind of prank that relies entirely on the absurdity of the responses rather than any real deception — the callers quickly realize something is very wrong, but the randomness of what they’re hearing keeps them engaged just long enough to make for good radio.
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