Category: News
Reggie Yates
The short archive clip begins with Reggie Yates swearing unexpectedly on air.
He immediately apologised to listeners and said it was the first time he had done so in his 19-year broadcasting career.
Reggie then continued an interview with a female act preparing for its first live performance together.
They said they had been rehearsing for several days and were due to perform in the Live Lounge on Tuesday.
The transcript does not preserve the act’s name, so it cannot be identified r [...]
Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr joined Scott after receiving an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Southampton Solent University.
The team inspected the certificate, joked about the formal wording and repeatedly pretended that Carr had thanked the wrong university.
Carr discussed recording Friday Night with Jonathan Ross alongside Serena Williams and Robbie Williams. He described the strange green-room experience in which guests chatted casually, then suddenly realised a camera had cut to them.
He also d [...]
Twitter on Loose Women
The archive contains a short Loose Women discussion about Twitter.
One panellist argued that the service could be useful for communities and for reporting major events. She cited the Iranian election protests as an example of people using Twitter to describe what was happening directly.
She accepted that much of the service was trivial but said it had also told her that Scott Mills wanted to go on holiday with her.
According to the discussion, Scott had talked about the pa [...]
The return of Sara Cox food watch
The team revived one of its most reliable recurring ideas: counting how often Sara Cox mentioned food.
Sara said she had recently become conscious of the habit and was actively trying not to talk about food. The others immediately pointed out that she had mentioned grapes within roughly six minutes of Monday’s programme and spent a long time discussing an egg yolk.
Jono from Unofficial Mills had listened to all three shows and produced both the montage and the f [...]
Sara Cox food watch
The archive contains the raw montage used for another of the programme’s recurring Sara Cox food counts.
Jono from Unofficial Mills had listened across three days of Sara’s programmes and extracted every reference he could find to food or drink.
The montage moved rapidly through a double skinny Frappuccino, a Chinese takeaway that had gone wrong, ribs, tartare sauce, goat’s cheese, cupcakes, fried chicken, chicken kebabs, mixed vegetables, tropical fruit, seaweed and Greek fo [...]
Fred Dinenage responds
The programme replayed Jonathan Wills accidentally telling Anglia News viewers that he loved them and repeated its request for more local news presenters to do the same.
Fred Dinenage responded at the end of ITV Meridian’s bulletin.
After congratulating Bob and Nada Williams from Canterbury on 65 years of marriage, he addressed “Radio 1 DJ Danny Howard”, said “love you” and immediately added: “Don’t take it personally.”
Scott appreciated the effort but ruled that it did no [...]
Jono spots the Anglia News ending
Scott credited Jono from unofficialmills.co.uk for finding an unusual ending to ITV Anglia’s local news.
Presenter Jonathan Wills had invited viewers to contact the programme and meant to say that the team always loved hearing from them.
Instead, he signed off with: “Love you. See you again tomorrow.”
The following evening, Wills acknowledged that he might have been over-familiar with viewers. He said he was fond of the audience but intended to restrict himself [...]
Radio 1 weekends
The archive contains a stylised promotional trail for Radio 1’s weekend schedule.
An exaggerated voice announced that the weekend had arrived and claimed that the stars were still visible even in daylight.
Sara Cox, Casualty and Reggie Yates were introduced through fragmented jokes and dramatic descriptions.
The trail promoted requests on Saturday and a larger Sunday programme before ending with the station’s standard identification. [...]
Vouching for Jono
A caller asked whether Zane Lowe knew Jono Read from Unofficial Mills.
Zane recognised the name and said Jono seemed like a nice person and “a good guy”.
The caller referred to arranging something with women on Wednesday night at a venue or event whose name is too garbled in the transcript to identify safely.
Zane repeatedly vouched for Jono and joked that he appeared to be popular everywhere.
The short clip is heavily corrupted, so the exact proposed meeting cannot be reconstr [...]
This week on the programme
The archive contains another highly edited weekly montage.
Clips included Scott using old Beccy recordings as though she were present, discussions of Gerard Butler and the programme’s fake inventions, and repeated jokes about “Annie Mac’s fanny packs” and “cranny wax”.
Other fragments revisited beetroot, pork pies, family conversations and moments in which the team struggled to pronounce names or understand one another.
Because the material was cut rapidly from several [...]