A chaotic episode sees the team launch Cake Roulette — eating cakes sent in by listeners with unknown contents — only for Beccy to reveal she’s secretly laced Scott’s slice with laxatives. Meanwhile, Scott discovers he features in a published book by an obsessed fan from his early radio days.
The show opens with a darkly comic premise: listeners have sent in cakes, and the team will taste them on air without knowing what’s inside, joking morbidly about potential poisoning. When they finally eat — a homemade orange cake wrapped in cling film — Scott, Chappers, and Beccy all sample it. Midway through, Beccy drops a bombshell: the cakes weren’t actually from listeners, and worse, she’s dosed Scott’s slice with laxatives without his knowledge, prompting genuine concern from everyone as Scott begins experiencing stomach cramps throughout the show (though it may all be psychological).
The episode also features the Raffles Place Ghost — a viral CCTV hoax from Singapore showing an elderly woman appearing in a lift. Josh Gaul, the Corporate Services Manager who orchestrated it, explains the office invented the ghost to discourage staff from working late due to stress and fatigue.
Scott reads passages from a published book by fan Charlotte Ward, who reveals she had a crush on him when she was 14 and managed to get work experience at his local radio station in Swindon through “proper channels.” The book describes her “stalking skills” and attempts to impress him with her wit, which Scott finds simultaneously flattering and unsettling.
The episode also includes Badly Bleeped TV, where the team guess censored words from Newsnight clips about Gordon Brown (answers: “photographed,” “bumming,” and “forced”), and a follow-up to yesterday’s story about Nicky, who locked herself out after pulling a stranger at a nightclub. Two men call in claiming to be him — Toby is quickly exposed as a fraud, and James fails basic questions about the night (getting her car colour wrong, not knowing the nightclub name, missing details about his clothing).
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