Category: News
The Get Your Own Back dispute
Scott’s friend Chris had appeared on children’s television programme Get Your Own Back when he was ten.
Contestants completed physical challenges to earn points before trying to send an adult into the show’s gunge tank. Chris had brought his barber.
Twelve years later, Chris still believed presenter Dave Benson Phillips had wrongly counted the petals on a flower during one challenge. He claimed the error cost him ten points, changed the result and allowed his barber [...]
Oh, What’s Occurring?
Beccy played alone after David Hasselhoff’s chaotic visit the previous day.
George Lamb, Larry Lamb or lamb doner?
Five people were asked whether they preferred presenter George Lamb, actor Larry Lamb or a lamb doner kebab.
Beccy chose Larry Lamb because she loved his Gavin & Stacey character Mick and wanted a future marriage resembling Mick and Pam’s.
The public preferred the lamb doner. One person said it looked more appetising than either human option, while another foun [...]
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff returned to the programme and was placed directly into Oh, What’s Occurring?
Scott explained that the game required no specialist knowledge: Hasselhoff simply had to hear a situation and guess a number. Hasselhoff nevertheless remained visibly and audibly confused.
The feature was temporarily renamed Oh, What’s Hoff-Curring?
Jimmy Carr’s laugh
The first question came from Jono at Unofficial Mills.
A montage from 8 Out of 10 Cats counted Jimmy Carr’s distinctive [...]
Oh, What’s Occurring?: Download Festival special
With Chappers away, Beccy played alone in an edition built entirely from material recorded at Download Festival.
Meshuggah’s coffee
Meshuggah were asked how many sugars the band collectively took in their coffee.
Two members drank it without sugar, the drummer took two and the singer took three. The total was five.
Beccy guessed five exactly and won the point.
Def Leppard fans and Werther’s Originals
Radio 1’s “Dan the Rock” approached eight Def L [...]
Jimmy Carr on 8 Out of 10 Cats
The archive contains a short sequence of Jimmy Carr jokes from 8 Out of 10 Cats.
His lines included comparisons involving a fax machine taped to a banjo, Ronnie Wood looking like Hannah Montana and a chef’s hat placed on a walnut.
Each joke was followed by Carr’s distinctive high-pitched laugh.
Jono from Unofficial Mills used the sequence to count the laughs for the following week’s Oh, What’s Occurring?. The total was nine. [...]
Dear Scott
Dear Scott was the programme’s correspondence feature. The Posh Radio 4 Lady read emails and texts in a deliberately formal voice before Scott, Beccy and Chappers responded.
One man asked for help after his wife was mistakenly congratulated on being pregnant by a colleague. When she asked whether she looked pregnant, he inspected her and admitted that he could understand why the mistake had been made.
The team agreed that this was the worst possible answer. They suggested he should ha [...]
Beccy’s Classifieds
In Beccy’s Classifieds, Beccy searched genuine internet adverts for odd bargains and “missed connections”, where people tried to locate strangers they had noticed in public.
The first seller offered an old top-loading washing machine with a £1 reserve. It shook the house, frightened guests, made children cry and had allegedly opened a portal to another dimension while spinning a load of towels. The owner claimed dinosaurs on the other side had looked frightened too.
The machi [...]
Beccy’s Forte
Scott argued that everybody had a special talent but Beccy had never found hers.
A beatboxer visited to assess whether vocal percussion might be her “forte”. He demonstrated techniques and listened to Beccy’s attempt before offering encouragement without claiming she was naturally exceptional.
The discussion also mentioned musical-comedy and freestyle performers as examples of people with obvious specialist skills.
Dear Scott
Listeners had asked for the return of the mysterious Big [...]
How to speak British English
Scott played an online lesson designed to teach American listeners a British accent.
The instructor demonstrated isolated words and phrases, including “everybody got lovely apples”.
The team thought her voice moved between the Queen, Liam Gallagher and several unrelated regional accents, making the lesson less useful than promised.
The Rasmus alert and toaster
Scott apologised for accidentally cutting off the beginning of a Rasmus track, meaning listeners had not rec [...]
Mills: The Musical
The bank-holiday archive contains a focused update on the Edinburgh show.
Craig and Tashaka returned with more original material. One song described a conversation between Scott and a celebrity in which the chemistry gradually became romantic. They rewrote the ending so that the woman proposed marriage.
They also produced a possible opening number for the entire musical.
The lyrics introduced Scott’s appearance, clothes, nails and heels before moving to Beccy as the producer a [...]