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Mr T visits Radio 1
Mr T joined Scott for a long interview covering wrestling, the A-Team, discipline, his mother and the campaign that had brought him to Britain.
The appearance opened with him praising unofficialmills.co.uk.
Wrestling advice for Chappers
Chappers was preparing for a Comic Relief wrestling challenge involving Justin Lee Collins.
Mr T said professional wrestling contained performance and predetermined elements, but being thrown across the ring and landing on the canvas still hur [...]
Dear Scott
The Posh Radio 4 Lady read a long set of listener correspondence.
One message praised Beccy in bullet points, saying she produced a major Radio 1 show, brought Beccy’s Classifieds to the programme, understood celebrities and laughed at the same stupid things as the listener.
Another came from a woman called Pam who said she had developed a slight obsession with Scott after seeing him in More magazine. Scott apologised because the name Pam made him laugh for no rational reason.
Jessica [...]
Beccy’s Classifieds
Greg James read another selection of genuine listings collected by Beccy.
The first major item was a homemade giant Jammie Dodger priced at £5.50.
Its creators had originally intended to eat it with friends and family but decided it was too special. The advert warned that the four-day-old biscuit had become soft and recommended that buyers should not eat it unless they particularly enjoyed stale food.
Scott admitted that he preferred softened biscuits, while Chappers argued t [...]
The Honesty Game
In The Honesty Game, the studio lights were lowered to create a supposed safe zone in which any team member could be asked a personal question and had to answer honestly.
Beccy disliked the feature because she never knew what listeners would ask.
The first caller wanted to know whether she would leave her boyfriend for a celebrity.
Beccy initially said no. Scott then suggested Alex James, Caleb Followill and Rupert Penry-Jones.
She continued to deny that she would leave the rela [...]
A universally likeable celebrity
During the handover, the team searched for a celebrity almost everybody liked.
Dave Grohl became the leading suggestion. The strongest criticism sent in was that somebody disliked his beard, which Scott dismissed as weak because Grohl could simply shave it off.
Other suggestions generated far more objections, reinforcing the idea that Grohl was unusually difficult to dislike.
Oh, What’s Occurring?
The first round used Sharon Osbourne’s interview with Piers Morgan [...]
Twitter
The archived clip captures Scott talking about Twitter at a point when the service was rapidly becoming more visible in British media.
The programme referred to people joining, following one another and using short status updates to communicate.
The segment is brief, but it marks Twitter becoming part of the show’s regular vocabulary rather than an unfamiliar internet novelty. [...]
Trying to steal from the BRITs
After the ceremony, members of the team attempted to remove a large piece of BRIT Awards scenery or branding from Earls Court.
They almost reached the exit, and one security guard initially held a door open while they carried it.
The plan failed when somebody realised the object was not theirs and told them they could not take it. The attempt had been filmed, allowing the programme to replay the sequence.
Dear Scott
In Dear Scott, listeners wrote about the previous [...]
Backstage at the BRITs
Scott presented an extended backstage programme from the 2009 BRIT Awards, with Edith Bowman reporting from the red carpet and guests moving through a small interview area before the ceremony.
Rather than a single studio interview, the archive contains a sequence of short conversations capturing what artists were wearing, who they wanted to meet, how nervous they felt and what they expected from the show.
Alan Carr
Alan Carr said he looked like “a geography teacher on acid [...]
Beccy’s Classifieds
In Beccy’s Classifieds, Greg James read genuine internet adverts collected by Beccy, while Scott and Chappers decided whether the objects were useful, disgusting or simply inexplicable.
Designer feather false eyelashes inspired by butterflies were offered for £8 with glue included. Scott could not understand why anybody would want feathers on their eyelids.
A set of used false teeth was free to a good home because the owner’s grandmother had received a new pair. The seller su [...]
Oh, What’s Occurring?
With Scott absent, Chappers presented Oh, What’s Occurring?, the daily game in which incomplete clips, counting challenges and office pranks were turned into questions for the contestants.
Beccy competed against a guest identified in the transcript as Joe Cole.
Edith Bowman’s positive language
The first question asked how often Edith Bowman used approving words during one hour of her afternoon programme.
The montage included “awesome”, “very good”, “brilliant”, “beautiful”, [...]