Big Weekend tickets cause national panic
Radio 1’s Big Weekend ticket release had listeners recruiting entire families and multiple telephones. Successful callers described years of trying and household operations involving every available device.
Listeners outside Hull and the surrounding area discovered their allocation had gone and began using “blame Scott”, even though he had no control over demand.
Ken Brown talks his golf balls downhill
BBC golf expert Ken Brown demonstrated the steep slopes at Augusta by releasing balls down a hill and encouraging them with cries of “Come on, boys”.
His conversation with the equipment became more compelling to Scott and Chris than the tournament result.
Find the genuinely naked listener
Claire, Nick and Jamie all claimed to have no clothes on. The presenters interrogated them through household sounds, vehicle horns and requests to slap bare skin.
They chose Claire and were correct. She really had been standing naked in her kitchen banging a saucepan to answer their questions.
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