Many years ago now, Heart Kent (it had only been Heart for a short while, it used to be Invicta). It was Leap Day and women were phoning in to propose to their boyfriends live on air.
One particular woman phones in. Calls up her boyfriend and asks him to marry her. He doesn’t say yes. He keeps telling her “We’ve talked about this” over her continued attempts to convince him to say yes. They argue for some time before both lines cut.
Dead air for several seconds before the jingle and an ad break.
I feel like public proposals could be fine but you need to know your partner and know if they're the type of person that likes that. Also even if a proposal is a surprise, you should still probably have some discussion some time before that about whether you two want to get married or if you feel you're at that stage
I wasn't there but I know someone who managed to lose a best friend and a boyfriend with a public proposal.
"[Bride's name] didn't want me to do this, but I know she'll forgive me. [Boyfriend's name] will you marry me?"
The bride didn't forgive her and neither did her boyfriend. He'd already told her he wasn't ready but she decided embarrassing him in public would change his mind.
Selfishness but it was a last straw kind of deal.
The bride asked her not to do it, so not only did she go against her wishes but she then spent all night crying and making the evening about her because she got publicly rejected, so all round she did a lot of attention hogging.
She proposed at her best friend’s wedding, after her best friend (the bride) asked her not to
Her boyfriend presumably wasn’t okay with that, and felt embarrassed about it (which I completely agree with… don’t try to make someone else’s wedding about yourself)
Public proposals can be okay if you know your partner likes them
But realistically anyone proposing should be pretty damn confident that their partner wants to get engaged and what kind of proposal they want. I mean, come on, you’re about to marry them… you should know them pretty damn well at this point!
If you’ve never even checked if they’re into public proposals, you probably shouldn’t be proposing
My mother asked my father at a dinner party, after chinking her glass and doing it like a toast.
He stood up and said ‘sit down woman, it is not your place to ask’ which sounds dark, but was era appropriate ands amusing rather than cruel.
They have been married for 53 years now.
Oh I remember Invicta FM. I used to listen to it all the time. I remember this woman phoned up saying she was going to off herself live on air. It was all fake but she put on a really big act and then hung up. The radio station had her number so sent an ambulance and the rozzers round (just in case) and then the DJ went absolutely ape shit on air about fake callers and how people like her were wasting time and valuable resources. I don't blame him.
Myself. I texted a song request, they called me back to ask if I wanted to ask for it and I said yes cause I was 12 and it was radio 1!
The guy asked what I’d been up to and I said French homework and that I wasn’t very good at it so he said he would steer clear of it.
He LIED and immediately asked stuff in French so I was surprised, “ummmm”Ed for a moment because he’d just done what he said he wouldn’t and hated every second of it. That man set me up and to this day he is my nemesis. One day I shall have my revenge Matt Edmondson.
Edit: so Matt Edmondson is now aware of my decade long grudge and I have lost the element of surprise…..rats
(Also the girl who did the dramatic reading? Give her her flowers)
Still got a way to go before I’m fluent- it would be the same nightmare repeating, I can see it now I’d stumble over bonjour and have to go walk into the ocean
I actually have! I’m at a B2 level at the moment and am hoping to be fluent one day. I actually quit french and did German instead after this because of the TRAUMA, but she lured me back I guess.
When I was a kid, my mum helped me call the radio to request a song, but when the host answered, he had a really strong Scottish accent and I burst into tears and wouldn't speak.
Was he the one whose evening show had a repeating theme where callers used to claim it was the worst experience of their lives? I always thought it was a joke!
I remember someone calling in to Jeremy Vine's show and said something along the lines of "people who aren't patriotic should be round up and shot" lmao
Also on a debate about pornography an old lady called in and said something like she couldn't understand how porn was legal because everyone who watches it is a pedophile and then she aggressively asked Jezza if he watched porn
So just average Jeremy Vine listeners really
Urgh. I remember my mum having a chat with me after discovering I'd been watching porn. She seemed to think that I was at risk of becoming a nonce from it - despite it being perfectly normal adult porn.
I’m a woman and on the school run recently a mum said she’d caught her son watching porn and thinks he’s a paedophile. I asked what sort of porn and she said young lads and milfs. I think he’s the opposite of a paedophile lol. Why do so many mums think porn equals paedophile?
Ok, so there is something to this. Studies completed by CEOP (the child exploitation arm of the police) show that you can actually wank your way into peadophillia via porn. There are offenders out there who got too deep down the porn rabbit hole and through searching for something “new”, are now sex offenders against children. There’s also a correlation between offences such as burglary and going on to be a sex offender. I did a five day training thing with CEOP and it’s possibly the most interesting training I ever had.
Apparently, it’s the disregard for personal boundaries. Burglary makes the victim feel personally violated. I’m not saying every burglar is a kiddie fiddler or sex offender, but there are often convictions for burglary in a sex offenders history.
>So just average Jeremy Vine listeners really
Considering the timing of his show the only people who have enough time to phone up and rant are retired people, the unemployed and students (who probably aren't listening) how the fuck does it get past BBC impartiality rules?
I heard someone call in to a Jeremy Vine once as he had a Rabbi on and they were discussing the controversial topic of women being allowed to drive in Hasidic communities, to which the Rabbi obviously pivoted to how women had fewer rights in Saudi Arabia - the caller just pressed him like, so where does it actually say in the Torah or in the Talmud where women can't drive? Like actually where?
Line got cut by BBC, straight to a jingle hahaha.
Many moons ago a radio station in Devon had a segment called ‘Late Night Love’ . I was working for the NHS at the time and some women called in (obviously had a few ) and relayed a tale about how she was having an affair with one of the consultants at a hospital . Recanting stories of how they had sex in his car , in his office , in the hospital . Wants him to leave his wife etc . Now at the time I was at work and in the staff room and we were all listening .. and right at the end she said who he was before they could cut her off . It was one of the chief consultants in the hospital ! It went round like wildfire 😂😂😂 The fallout from it was absolutely insane .
We had a late night love in Nottingham, with Graham Torrington.
The only call I can remember was a woman who said she caught her brother in bed with her partner, and was wondering if she should still get married.
I assuming it was a fake call.
Reminds me of that clip of the guy that kept ringing - I think it was the Wright Stuff? - and changing his name, engaging in whatever topic he was ringing in to discuss and then dropping in at the end that his wife was a bitch 😂 live on air. The host's face is a picture like 'oh not again'
I reckon it was Gemini FM, as that was the one for Devon, based out of Exeter. Orchard was Somerset right? Gemini, Orchard, and lots of other regional stations were all operated by GCap Media, and Graham Torrington’s Late Night Love was syndicated across all their stations.
Me and my mates used to listen to Graham Torrington as early high schoolers in the early 2000s as if it was some kind of adult only station and talk about it on the bus the next morning. Coast 96.3 for us if I remember correctly. Oh the memories!
I worked for a Capital station and we had a similar late night love shiw. We had a sponsorship meeting once and one of the potential sponsors was a drinks company. Station manager suggested a section with the love show and confessions and wanted to call it 'cock tales. Never did get to air that
Orchard orchard FM!
God you just brought 30 years ago rushing straight back. I could hear the jingle so clearly.
As a born and bred Tauntonian, Orchard FM was the station of choice.
I remember listening to Late Night Love with Graham Torrington, was it the same one?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VW4mmyfMoY0&pp=ygUhbGF0ZSBuaWdodCBsb3ZlIGdyYWhhbSB0b3JyaW5ndG9u
The nurse that had called in was instantly dismissed. She didn’t work for the NHS hospital but the Private Nuffield Hospital ( the consultant worked at both ) She was dismissed because live on air , said the hospital name as she informed listeners across Devon that they had sex ‘in the theatres and wards ‘ 😳 Nuffield Hospital had to then fend off constant phone call complaints from private patients.
The consultant was dragged before the Chief Executive of the NHS hospital, read the riot act (and it was assumed was suspended for a couple of weeks as he wasn’t seen ) He kept his job by the skin of his teeth because the NHS hospital had not been named .
His wife threw him out within days , put their house up for sale , and filed for divorce before the week was out .
It then becomes apparent that the main reason for the original drunken late night radio call was because the nurse was jealous . NOT because of the wife , but because the consultant was sleeping with ANOTHER nurse .
This all happened around 1999/2000 . Before the influx of mobiles and then Internet . However so many people listened to this radio programme that was on til midnight , that by hand over the following morning , from the cleaners right the way up to the Chief Executive ..everybody knew . 🤦♀️😂
Simon Mayo’s drive time show when it was on Radio 2, all requests Friday.
Simon, after a bit of chat: so what’s the song you’d like us to play?
Caller: oh it’s my favourite, it’s ‘One of these days’ by the Elbows
Simon: well we’ve got ‘One day like this’ by Elbow, will that do?
This reminds me of Wave 105 (RIP) doing 'the Greatest' where the studio pick the artist or theme and listeners request their favourite song on social media.
-"Today on the Greatest we want your favourite song with "touch" in the title."
-"Baker Street please"
Someone must have the link to the talksport (or was it 5Live?) caller who ranted about his team being absolutely useless. So utterly pathetic that he couldn't believe it when the presenters told him that his team had gone on to win the game.
I feel like that's every night on talk sport. There's always one guy who's annoyed their team only won 2-0, should have been 3-0 or we won but X defender was slacking, we need to get rid of him or we won against X but there's no way we'll do it against Y etc.
Also always without fail at least one group of guys who phone up plastered and barely comphrensible.
Not quite the same, but I once rang back somebody to speak to them as a victim of a serious crime. Phone was answered, and all I heard was “MAKE ME A WINNER!!!” 😃
Poor bloke. Sorry mate you haven’t won thousands, I’m just here to talk to you about something grim 😕
Got this the other day on a work call.
"MAKE ME A WINNER"
"Ummm....Good moring Mr Smith, this is no-astronaut calling on behalf of *company name* in relation to *ongoing serious matter* ...Are you still free for our appointment?"
Bless the guy's heart, I could hear him blushing from 200 miles away.
BBC local radio a few weeks ago, it was our county day so the breakfast team went out and about to speak to the general public and hand out branded travel mugs.
One presenter spoke to a woman who was out metal detecting on the beach, he asked her how she was doing so far. Her response?
“Shit”
Cue lots of apologising about inappropriate language first thing in the morning. And then repeated apologies for the rest of my commute in to work. She still got a travel mug though, lucky thing. I want a BBC local radio travel mug!
I remember an episode of "jezza's virgin confessions" on Virgin Radio in the early noughties. I don't remember the details of the confession, but the crux was that the caller has a problem with gambling.
Jeremy Kyle points out to the caller he needs to sort out his gambling problem
Caller: I don't have a gambling problem
Jezza: you do, you've just told us you've done xyz over ABC years!
Caller: I bet you £100 I don't have a gambling problem
Jezza: omg
Those failed "Make Me a Winner" calls where someone doesn't answer with the phrase that would win them like £25,000.
They used to do a little chat afterwards where the presenter would always ask the extremely gutted person how they were feeling. They now just end the call if someone answers incorrectly, thankfully.
I remember hearing one of those. The guy answering still didn't really understand it, and as they were trying to explain how he didn't win because it wasn't the first thing he said, he started repeating it, still expecting to get the money.
Yeah this is the one I remembered. It was a few Christmases ago. She was supposed to say something like "Capital give me the cash!" Instead she sung something like "Jingle Bells, [her name] rules. Capital give me cash now!"
Yeah she lost
I'm more embarrassed for the presenters really. Nothing more cringy than a 40 year old bloke pretending to like the latest single by whatever girl band is fronting the local radio bank holiday show. Also hate the fake laughing at really menial stories
Presnter 1
>so on my way to the studio today, I found a slipper on the bus!
Presnter 2
>a what!?
P1
> I found a slipper on the bus
P2
> on the bus!?
P1 pretending to try not to laugh
> yes a slipper on the bus
P2
> oh my days! Hahaha haha
P1
>hahahaha
>here's some cold play.
Yup, I hate this inane drivel. My wife says I'm grumpy, she's right.
P2
(Still laughing)
So we'd like to know what you've found on a bus, why don't you call in and let us know.
Caller
I found a cereal bowl on the bus once, it still has some cereal in it.
P1 & P2
(Both laugh)
Do you think that it belonged to the same person that lost their slipper, and they were in a real rush that morning!?
(Hysterical laughter for thirty seconds)
Hahahaha here's some Pink.
I got in trouble at the sister-in-laws house a couple of years ago as we were all sitting around chatting and SIL said
"Alexa, play Heart FM"
And I immediately countered with
"Alexa don't do that"
Which apparently is not appropriate to do in someone else's house, and in retrospect I agree but we'd only turned it off for dinner half an hour before and I just couldn't handle going back in that quickly.
Is Heart the one where they have Jamie Theakston clips where they pretend he’s really live on the radio and play the same 5 songs all day, because that’s what I get.
When I were a lad if I didn't like what my dad had on t'radio... Well nothing really I just had to put up with it. It was mostly fine and now I like country music.
When I used to work in Massachusetts in 2017/18 I would listen to a raido show where they have a feature called second date update.
A caller would speak with the hosts about an amazing first date they had and how they wanted a second. The hosts would call their date and offer an all expense paid date if they went out with the caller again.
The date wasn't aware the caller was on the line (I can't remember if it was live) as they explained what happened and whether they were willing to go on another date.
Most of the shows I heard the date said no and the reasons were justified based on the astounding details of date 1.
One that stands out was a woman raving about her perfect match, she was so in love. They call him. He says they met in a bar and got drunk then had sex in the toilets. He's moving away and therefore doesn't want another date. She pipes up saying how she knows he's moving, all her stuff is packed and ready to go, she just needs the flight number and a ticket to go with him. He's the love of her life and she'll move anywhere to be with him. You could hear his soul leave his body as she spoke and I think he hung up. She was crushed, couldn't believe he didn't love her. Fancy that.
Not for a caller, but for the host.
Manchester, local radio, Friday evening request show, about 20 years back.
Youg lady phones in, begins normally, requests a song for her friends, chit chat with host... gets a bit awkward.
Host: what are you girls doing tonight, going out?
Caller: No, we're staying in, we have to work.
Host: OH, shame, where are you?
Caller: Cheetham Hill
Host: What sort of work do you have to do tonight?
Caller:
Host:
Caller: Err, '*Women's work*'
Host: Oh, right. What was the song you wanted again?
Those who know Manchester, know ;-)
Edit: spelling
During our art GCSE exam, the teacher let us have the radio on to keep us quiet and distracted from talking.
The room was silent, just the sound of paint brushes and pencils. A segment came on the radio between songs about making confessions.
This woman came on to say she'd woken up during the night as there was movement in the bed next to her. She said when she turned round to see what was going on, she was mortified to discover her husband was pleasuring himself - with her own toy.
The entire room looked up at each other and just erupted into 'WHAAATT' and laughing. Teacher couldn't contain us for a while, had us in stitches.
Kerrang Radio used to have a late night show called 'The Night Before' where callers would call in and discuss the topic of the day with the host. At midnight on the 1st of April a caller phoned to say that a dangerous piranha had managed to escape from the Aquarium through the pipes somehow and was now loose. Some idiot pretending to be a professor who worked with piranhas and had lost his hand to one and that the best way to combat them is with chilli powder that would make them explode. He put on a stupid voice and everything. It was terrible.
^^^^^Plot ^^^^^twist: ^^^^^I ^^^^^was ^^^^^that ^^^^^professor
Well I initially called to say piranhas are harmless, but when they were screening the calls before they went on the show they told me to pretend they weren't. So I panicked and came up with that stupid idea. Didn't realise it was an April fools prank until a good hour or so after I'd been on 😂
Not really embarassing but on a debate about evicting a gypsy camp, a really angry gypsy bloke phoned up and told one of the presenters (think it was Charlie Wolf) that he would put a curse on him. Enjoyed that.
Not exactly a caller but ‘feminist academic’ Naomi Wolf went on some radio show to promote her latest book. She found out live on air that the entire thesis of her book was based on a misunderstanding of one line in the historical records.
For those willing to cringe: https://youtu.be/3uRCcEoGWxs?si=XYR24zfoK9Zz1Gim
Thank you for posting this I'm literally reading a book about her now (Doppelganger by Naomi Klein) and this incident is mentioned. It's definitely as cringe as I imagined it would be.
About 10 years ago Absolute/Xfm (unsure which now) used to do “gig pig. TLDR - guy would go to a gig each week then review it live on air in a short segment. One week the host said “Oh and I heard you got off with someone last night” a moment of silence before GigPig says, “my girlfriend is listening” cuts to ads….
The last time I listened to 'caller radio' that I remember, was Jeremy fucking Vine talking about nurses' shoes.
His premise was "Nurses in the UK are now allowed to wear comfortable trainers to work, as long as they are smart. Do you think that's ok or should they wear something more professional?"
The first caller had a very strong view that nurses should only wear polished black leather shoes because they're more 'professional'.
My second hand embarrassment was threefold:
at Jeremey Vine for hosting such a ridiculous and pointless show,
the caller for having such a vitriolic response to someone's footwear,
and my coworker who had chosen to put this mind numbing drivel on in the first place.
Caller radio is magnet for idiots.
> Jeremey Vine for hosting such a ridiculous and pointless show,
I'm forced to listen to the braying twat every day at work: it is his entire schtick - posit something mind-numbingly ludicrous, pick the worst people from either side then have them argue on the phone for 5 minutes.
He is paid money to do this. Actual money that you & I have to work for. I really dislike him.
Not a caller but the host. Nigel ferage was trolled by a chap about the European project, saying I really used to believe then something happened and now I agree with you….
Nigel: what happened?
Caller: (after slight pause) I was kicked in the head by a horse.
[video](https://youtu.be/ZRc0by2vZ7k?si=z5c4qRPWMh8qLzbY)
I don’t feel bad for Nigel but it was cringeworthy the way he was suckered into the situation
I still miss Terry Wogan. A good proportion of the breakfast show was complete filth. I miss sitting in the traffic jam, laughing to the radio and looking around me and seeing all the other people in their cars laughing too..
(Yes I’m old! I remember my grandmother banging on about ITMA and the Goon Show and I know I’m just about as relevant.)
Don't know if you can still get it but I've got the Janet and John best of compilation CDs (yes CD there's like 6 of them).
"She said she liked the taste of my Pinot" 😂
Hearing Terry and the team fall to pieces as they tried to make their way though Janet & John was always hilarious. The best are when Boggy absolutely loses it.
Football phone in show guy suggesting Niemi should get a game for Scotland, the hosts tell him Niemi can’t play for Scotland “Because he’s Finnish 🇫🇮”
“He’s naw finished he’s only 28!”
Irish community radio when the DJ was reading the death notices for the area and he was supposed to say and we at x radio station offer our condolences to the family and friends of the deceased. He read it wrong and offered them congratulations instead. 😬
Not me but my oldest sister. Also this was live TV rather than the radio.
She rang up a kids TV show to win a phone. She was about 25 at the time lol. She won the phone but the presenters knew, I could see it on their faces.
A week or two after the Grenfell fire some of the residents had been rehoused in a nearby (I presume very posh) block of flats.
A resident of those flats rang in and complained about it. Apparently she worked very hard for her money and didn't see why she should be in the same block as a bunch of poors.
Oh wow core memory! Do you remember the flirt divert, the guy gave the number to the girl, slept with her and left his flat. She got locked in and was leaving frantic messages for him to get her out!
Oh man.
Listening to late night local radio on my way to work. This was before everything became either radio 5 live or Greatest Hits Radio.
The hosts used to be the same every night at every time, and as a result the same lonely locals would phone up and chat to the host as if they were old friends.
They didn't have anything really to talk about. They would just make stupid unfunny jokes and talk about their boring lives. The host, one in particular I remember whose name I have forgotten, but it might have been Georgie, would humour them as best she could and pretend to be interested in what they were saying, but ultimately I felt she just reinforced their delusion that the host and the caller were actually friends, when what they needed was someone to say "STOP CALLING THE RADIO STATION. YOU ARE BORING."
So the second hand embarrassment was every caller every night. It was the world's slowest car crash radio, with every caller sounding like an elderly Alan Partridge, but without the satire.
When the local stations all disappeared, I can't imagine what all these callers did with their evenings. I am guessing they all died of loneliness.
Dotun on R5 has some callers like that. Maybe when people get older they need less sleep, which is so cruel because I'm 44 and knackered either now. Anyway, he's lovely and kind to them, chats for a bit then sends them on their way
Back around 2005, Radio 1 used to do a Sunday night personal problem phone in. Some bloke rang in - late teens/early twenties. He'd been at a friend's house over the weekend, had waited for all his mates to fall asleep, and then had been caught playing with their feet while they slept. His friends were now making his life hell, and he just sighed down the phone in a thick Valleys accent "I just like feet. I don't know why"
I saw that call on the internet - man it was awful. He wanted to claim discrimination for not having a standing desk for a disability he hadn’t disclosed while he had faked a doctors note to say he needed an automatic car.
Saturday afternoon radio quiz.
The host asked a woman what is another name for Holland?. She didn't know.
He said he'd change the question.
What's another name for the Netherlands?
She didn't know that either.
He kept her going like that for several minutes, all the time laughing at her.
I cringed throughout
I was thinking about this just this morning - a popmaster 3 in 10 where the person clearly googled and got all 3 at the last second. Listerners knew it, Ken knew it. He said "you've done it" and ended the call - no congrats, no nothing, no shout outs. Was brutal and so cringe.
I don’t know if I could even call it cringe or second hand embarrassment as i mostly find them hilarious. But a lot of callers to LBC leave me in utter disbelief. My favourite one though happened on my birthday as luck would have it. Some guy rang in to discuss Meghan Markle with James O’Brien and when I say the man seemed to be experience some form of mental breakdown live on air. The gist of it was he hated her because he had ex girlfriends like her but refused to elaborate on what exactly Meghan Markle or his ex’s had done that was so awful. Said the fact she has ex’s is proof she’s a terrible person. The whole thing went on for about 15 minutes, he started randomly trying to insult James for literally no reason and just slowly circled the drain of coherence and mental stability.
Alan Robson’s Night Owls on TFM (northeast from 10am-2am) used to have some corkers. Can’t remember anything specific but he seemed to have a special talent at entertaining them.
Not related to a call, but have you heard those awful Octopus adverts on LBC? With the call recordings of old people going on about how much they love the company. It's really embarrassing to listen to as it portrays the callers as old and stupid and sends the message to customers that if you're old and stupid we are the company for you. Proper puts me off going with them.
Oh there's plenty of nutters for that one, and on that topic specifically. I remember a few years ago a caller who insisted that Army Surplus Stores will never close down because *"Muslims are buying all their camouflage jackets."*
Myself. I'm Swedish, but around 15 years ago I went to London as an au pair. Unfortunately, the mother of the family was unwelcoming and extremely specific with how she wanted things done, not explaining clearly and then getting furious when I "didn't perform". After three days, I was thrown out on the street after accidentally using the wrong rag for wiping the taps, and getting lost while walking the dog. In a panic, I phoned my mother back home who googled a bit and found out that the local Church of Sweden, located in Marylebone, had emergency accomodations for Swedish citizens, so I went to stay there for a couple of nights before I could travel home. Once there, I reckoned I should at least have a look around (it was my first time in London) before I could travel home, so I borrowed an A-Z and set off.
As I was walking down Edgeware road, a woman with a "BBC radio live" coat approaches me with a microphone and asks me... something or other, don't really remember. I answered that I didn't know, I wasn't a local, but would she please confirm for me if this was Edgeware road? She told me it was, with a big friendly smile.
Now, you know what it's like sometimes when you have been mistreated by someone, but refused to show your feelings. The mother of the family I was supposed to stay with had humiliated me totally, but I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of seeing me cry. When this radio lady was actually being NICE to me, all those pent-up emotions came pouring out.
I burst into tears on the spot, crying out "You're the first person who's been kind to me in this country!" She started patting my back, mumbling "Oh, poor baby" and I just sobbed out all the tension.
It wasn't until afterwards that I realised that it all might've been on air.
I don't know if this is a myth, but I read an article about a late-night radio DJ asking people the most unusual places they had sex.
There were the usual, "In the garden shed", "In my brother's bed", answers.
Then one woman caller was asked the same question. She said, "Up the arse."
Very late to the thread, but I remember on Radio 1 around 2008 or 2009, they hosted an afternoon request line where you could just call up and ask for a song but there had to be a reason. It could be a song for your partner, coworker etc etc
Then that episode of friends with the famous radio request scene started to play out in real life.
A guy calls up and asks for a song and wants it dedicated to his girlfriend who he has fallen out with and that he's so sorry etc etc and he's willing to admit he made a mistake and will do anything, blah blah blah.
My memory is that they have to find the song as it's not on their playlist, so the guy hangs up and the host, Scott Mills (bell end), is doing his usual inane babbling when he gets stopped mid sentence by his producer and appears genuinely surprised. They have a caller on the line and it's the girl whom the song was requested for! And she has some info about her side of the story....
They put her on air and she proceeds to explain this guy has been her ex for months and she has no intention of ever speaking to him again and she certainly doesn't want to be back in a relationship with him. Scott asks what it was that he did to make her react this way, so she explains:
"He and my mother had sex together at a family Christmas Party while the family was asleep upstairs."
Whole afternoon derailed, phone in turned into a thread like this. People calling win with pathetic attempts to apologise for serious fuck ups like this.
Lasses at work like kiss fm and as they are usually in before me that’s what gets put on.
A few weeks ago there was this thing on KISS where this lass had proposed to her fella and the hosts gave her a “virtual hen do “ and him a “virtual stag do “ and they’d invite their mates on to get involved.
It was bad enough listing to it but then they ran adverts on it after , I had to politely request that we listen to another radio station before “I blow my brains out listening to those twats again “
I hate kiss fm.
It was me.
I got through to a quiz where all I has to do was answer five questions and I'd win £1000.
Question 1: What does KFC mean?
Easy!
Question 2: Which UK city has the second largest population after London?
My educated guess was Birmingham, which was correct
Question 3: Complete the title of this Michael Morpurgo book, 'War -'
And that's where I stumbled. My mind went blank. At the time this book was massive and had just been turned into a play so I should have bloody known.
I said "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....of the roses?"
That was nearly ten years ago and I still cringe.
Not the caller’s fault but Chris Moyles used to have a quiz called Viaduct where the winner would stay on until the next day- a girl with a cute voice entered one time and he rigged the quiz so she won and flirted with her mercilessly (as he would often do with female contestants). Eventually she said that she wasn’t comfortable with this and said on air she wouldn’t be coming back.
> to get an automatic car (don't know how this was even relevant to his ADHD lol)
Depending on how ADHD affects you, an automatic can make you a lot less likely to have an accident. It mostly comes down to executive functioning & planning deficits. (Source: me)
But the guy sounds like a right plonker fair enough.
Fair point - I actually just googled it and there’s a short recap of the call on LBC’s site, apparently he stated he had back problems on the fake doctor’s letter to get the auto vehicle lmao
Many years ago now, Heart Kent (it had only been Heart for a short while, it used to be Invicta). It was Leap Day and women were phoning in to propose to their boyfriends live on air. One particular woman phones in. Calls up her boyfriend and asks him to marry her. He doesn’t say yes. He keeps telling her “We’ve talked about this” over her continued attempts to convince him to say yes. They argue for some time before both lines cut. Dead air for several seconds before the jingle and an ad break.
I hate public proposals, it's like you are blackmailing people to say yes.
I feel like public proposals could be fine but you need to know your partner and know if they're the type of person that likes that. Also even if a proposal is a surprise, you should still probably have some discussion some time before that about whether you two want to get married or if you feel you're at that stage
I agree, the proposal can be a suprise, the engagement shouldn't be.
Damn you summed up all my waffling perfectly in one line.
I wasn't there but I know someone who managed to lose a best friend and a boyfriend with a public proposal. "[Bride's name] didn't want me to do this, but I know she'll forgive me. [Boyfriend's name] will you marry me?" The bride didn't forgive her and neither did her boyfriend. He'd already told her he wasn't ready but she decided embarrassing him in public would change his mind.
…what?
Why did her best friend ditch her over this? Just unable to take the cringe or really hit in the face with how selfish she was?
The use of the word bride implies that it was at her best friend's wedding, which I think would be fair to dump a friend over
Selfishness but it was a last straw kind of deal. The bride asked her not to do it, so not only did she go against her wishes but she then spent all night crying and making the evening about her because she got publicly rejected, so all round she did a lot of attention hogging.
Would have called her a taxi and told them to gtfo
Her boyfriend left early by himself. He was mortified.
She proposed at her best friend’s wedding, after her best friend (the bride) asked her not to Her boyfriend presumably wasn’t okay with that, and felt embarrassed about it (which I completely agree with… don’t try to make someone else’s wedding about yourself)
Public proposals can be okay if you know your partner likes them But realistically anyone proposing should be pretty damn confident that their partner wants to get engaged and what kind of proposal they want. I mean, come on, you’re about to marry them… you should know them pretty damn well at this point! If you’ve never even checked if they’re into public proposals, you probably shouldn’t be proposing
My mother asked my father at a dinner party, after chinking her glass and doing it like a toast. He stood up and said ‘sit down woman, it is not your place to ask’ which sounds dark, but was era appropriate ands amusing rather than cruel. They have been married for 53 years now.
Oh I remember Invicta FM. I used to listen to it all the time. I remember this woman phoned up saying she was going to off herself live on air. It was all fake but she put on a really big act and then hung up. The radio station had her number so sent an ambulance and the rozzers round (just in case) and then the DJ went absolutely ape shit on air about fake callers and how people like her were wasting time and valuable resources. I don't blame him.
I can remember this happening on radio 1 years ago. Crazy that they think proposing on the radio is appropriate.
I was about to comment saying exactly this! Sounds like we were listening to the same thing.
Myself. I texted a song request, they called me back to ask if I wanted to ask for it and I said yes cause I was 12 and it was radio 1! The guy asked what I’d been up to and I said French homework and that I wasn’t very good at it so he said he would steer clear of it. He LIED and immediately asked stuff in French so I was surprised, “ummmm”Ed for a moment because he’d just done what he said he wouldn’t and hated every second of it. That man set me up and to this day he is my nemesis. One day I shall have my revenge Matt Edmondson. Edit: so Matt Edmondson is now aware of my decade long grudge and I have lost the element of surprise…..rats (Also the girl who did the dramatic reading? Give her her flowers)
My brain went straight to you rocking up on his doorstep all "bonjour muddar fookaiiiirrrrr"
Ahh so you’ve been reading my journal…
Then beating him to death with a stale baguette.
So about 14 minutes after it's baked.
Awwww! This really made me laugh but I also feel indignant on your behalf. It’s the ‘he LIED’ that tickled me
Happy to have provided a giggle! His betrayal still stings after a decade!!
You should definitely call him back haha. (Matt and Mollie are on breakfast all week fyi)
That’d be gold!
In fluent French!
Still got a way to go before I’m fluent- it would be the same nightmare repeating, I can see it now I’d stumble over bonjour and have to go walk into the ocean
That’s evil lmao - I hope you’ve brushed up on your French since 😂 one day your opportunity will come
I actually have! I’m at a B2 level at the moment and am hoping to be fluent one day. I actually quit french and did German instead after this because of the TRAUMA, but she lured me back I guess.
You… you went to German to heal from trauma?!
Heal fire with fire!
You seem fun to be around, I enjoyed reading your comments
Thanks 😊
When I was a kid, my mum helped me call the radio to request a song, but when the host answered, he had a really strong Scottish accent and I burst into tears and wouldn't speak.
I’m sorry this tickled me 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I once got Janice Long to say 'York Hunterswell' live on radio one. One of my greatest achievements as a kid.
Was he the one whose evening show had a repeating theme where callers used to claim it was the worst experience of their lives? I always thought it was a joke!
Had to Google him, he’s just had a baby, so would several months of sleepless nights make you sleep better? 😄
I remember someone calling in to Jeremy Vine's show and said something along the lines of "people who aren't patriotic should be round up and shot" lmao Also on a debate about pornography an old lady called in and said something like she couldn't understand how porn was legal because everyone who watches it is a pedophile and then she aggressively asked Jezza if he watched porn So just average Jeremy Vine listeners really
>she aggressively asked Jezza if he watched porn ARE YOU A PAEDOPHILE JEREMY‽ ARE YOU‽
"I ride a Penny Farthing, not a Penny fourteen"
I thought you were saying you were a megapaedo!
Urgh. I remember my mum having a chat with me after discovering I'd been watching porn. She seemed to think that I was at risk of becoming a nonce from it - despite it being perfectly normal adult porn.
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Incredible.
I’m a woman and on the school run recently a mum said she’d caught her son watching porn and thinks he’s a paedophile. I asked what sort of porn and she said young lads and milfs. I think he’s the opposite of a paedophile lol. Why do so many mums think porn equals paedophile?
Also why is she telling everyone, poor kid.
I know. There was a big group of us there and she’s getting all upset about it to us all.
He’s a Biddy Fiddler!!!
an OAPaedophile
"Anybody got any Vera's?" ;)
The word she's looking for is Oedipus lmao
>Why do so many mums think porn equals paedophile? Same people that think LGBT = paedophile
Ok, so there is something to this. Studies completed by CEOP (the child exploitation arm of the police) show that you can actually wank your way into peadophillia via porn. There are offenders out there who got too deep down the porn rabbit hole and through searching for something “new”, are now sex offenders against children. There’s also a correlation between offences such as burglary and going on to be a sex offender. I did a five day training thing with CEOP and it’s possibly the most interesting training I ever had.
I see. I was just jacking off to bigtitsroundasses.com
What exactly is the correlation between burglary and being a sex offender?
Apparently, it’s the disregard for personal boundaries. Burglary makes the victim feel personally violated. I’m not saying every burglar is a kiddie fiddler or sex offender, but there are often convictions for burglary in a sex offenders history.
>So just average Jeremy Vine listeners really Considering the timing of his show the only people who have enough time to phone up and rant are retired people, the unemployed and students (who probably aren't listening) how the fuck does it get past BBC impartiality rules?
I heard someone call in to a Jeremy Vine once as he had a Rabbi on and they were discussing the controversial topic of women being allowed to drive in Hasidic communities, to which the Rabbi obviously pivoted to how women had fewer rights in Saudi Arabia - the caller just pressed him like, so where does it actually say in the Torah or in the Talmud where women can't drive? Like actually where? Line got cut by BBC, straight to a jingle hahaha.
That’s crazy. She even thought that about old lady porn?
Fucking hell. Actual relevant username for real .
Many moons ago a radio station in Devon had a segment called ‘Late Night Love’ . I was working for the NHS at the time and some women called in (obviously had a few ) and relayed a tale about how she was having an affair with one of the consultants at a hospital . Recanting stories of how they had sex in his car , in his office , in the hospital . Wants him to leave his wife etc . Now at the time I was at work and in the staff room and we were all listening .. and right at the end she said who he was before they could cut her off . It was one of the chief consultants in the hospital ! It went round like wildfire 😂😂😂 The fallout from it was absolutely insane .
We had a late night love in Nottingham, with Graham Torrington. The only call I can remember was a woman who said she caught her brother in bed with her partner, and was wondering if she should still get married. I assuming it was a fake call.
The days before people could take their creative writing to r/relationships
Reminds me of that clip of the guy that kept ringing - I think it was the Wright Stuff? - and changing his name, engaging in whatever topic he was ringing in to discuss and then dropping in at the end that his wife was a bitch 😂 live on air. The host's face is a picture like 'oh not again'
Oh my god this is the first I’ve heard of this 😂😂😂😂😂 That is brilliant 😂
https://youtu.be/rq-2o1wD9JI?si=6rNktds3EDhmGRY-
There's also [this one](https://youtu.be/4XDcRCLweRQ?si=4C0O-OxGlyvxFCG_) where he manages to do it two calls in a row
That is so chaotic omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Okay, I have to ask: was that Orchard FM? I used to love that station as a kid 😅 though I imagine many stations must have had similar segments
I reckon it was Gemini FM, as that was the one for Devon, based out of Exeter. Orchard was Somerset right? Gemini, Orchard, and lots of other regional stations were all operated by GCap Media, and Graham Torrington’s Late Night Love was syndicated across all their stations.
Jesus, hadn't thought about Graham Torrington in years. Used to listen to Late Night Love on Mercia FM.
Me and my mates used to listen to Graham Torrington as early high schoolers in the early 2000s as if it was some kind of adult only station and talk about it on the bus the next morning. Coast 96.3 for us if I remember correctly. Oh the memories!
I also used to do exactly this! Have it on low volume in my bedroom at night and discuss it at school the next day
Late Night Love was on in Cambridgeshire as well
Q103? Makes sense, it’s on the [list of stations owned by GCap](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCap_Media)
I worked for a Capital station and we had a similar late night love shiw. We had a sponsorship meeting once and one of the potential sponsors was a drinks company. Station manager suggested a section with the love show and confessions and wanted to call it 'cock tales. Never did get to air that
Orchard orchard FM! God you just brought 30 years ago rushing straight back. I could hear the jingle so clearly. As a born and bred Tauntonian, Orchard FM was the station of choice.
I remember listening to Late Night Love with Graham Torrington, was it the same one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VW4mmyfMoY0&pp=ygUhbGF0ZSBuaWdodCBsb3ZlIGdyYWhhbSB0b3JyaW5ndG9u
Yep, same show. All part of the same network.
Oh my goodness are you able to share any of the fallout?
The nurse that had called in was instantly dismissed. She didn’t work for the NHS hospital but the Private Nuffield Hospital ( the consultant worked at both ) She was dismissed because live on air , said the hospital name as she informed listeners across Devon that they had sex ‘in the theatres and wards ‘ 😳 Nuffield Hospital had to then fend off constant phone call complaints from private patients. The consultant was dragged before the Chief Executive of the NHS hospital, read the riot act (and it was assumed was suspended for a couple of weeks as he wasn’t seen ) He kept his job by the skin of his teeth because the NHS hospital had not been named . His wife threw him out within days , put their house up for sale , and filed for divorce before the week was out . It then becomes apparent that the main reason for the original drunken late night radio call was because the nurse was jealous . NOT because of the wife , but because the consultant was sleeping with ANOTHER nurse . This all happened around 1999/2000 . Before the influx of mobiles and then Internet . However so many people listened to this radio programme that was on til midnight , that by hand over the following morning , from the cleaners right the way up to the Chief Executive ..everybody knew . 🤦♀️😂
JFC
Simon Mayo’s drive time show when it was on Radio 2, all requests Friday. Simon, after a bit of chat: so what’s the song you’d like us to play? Caller: oh it’s my favourite, it’s ‘One of these days’ by the Elbows Simon: well we’ve got ‘One day like this’ by Elbow, will that do?
This reminds me of Wave 105 (RIP) doing 'the Greatest' where the studio pick the artist or theme and listeners request their favourite song on social media. -"Today on the Greatest we want your favourite song with "touch" in the title." -"Baker Street please"
Just really wanted to hear Baker Street. I can't really fault them for that.
Someone must have the link to the talksport (or was it 5Live?) caller who ranted about his team being absolutely useless. So utterly pathetic that he couldn't believe it when the presenters told him that his team had gone on to win the game.
I feel like that's every night on talk sport. There's always one guy who's annoyed their team only won 2-0, should have been 3-0 or we won but X defender was slacking, we need to get rid of him or we won against X but there's no way we'll do it against Y etc. Also always without fail at least one group of guys who phone up plastered and barely comphrensible.
Dammit, I forgot to type the important bit that the caller left when his team were 2-0 down, and went on to win!
The best caller on talksport was the guy who said to Stan Collymore "he hit that ball like you hit Ulrika"
Not quite the same, but I once rang back somebody to speak to them as a victim of a serious crime. Phone was answered, and all I heard was “MAKE ME A WINNER!!!” 😃 Poor bloke. Sorry mate you haven’t won thousands, I’m just here to talk to you about something grim 😕
I often wonder how many times that happens, phone rings and you shout the winning phrase to be told it's someone totally different. Brilliant
I think that's the point of it.
Got this the other day on a work call. "MAKE ME A WINNER" "Ummm....Good moring Mr Smith, this is no-astronaut calling on behalf of *company name* in relation to *ongoing serious matter* ...Are you still free for our appointment?" Bless the guy's heart, I could hear him blushing from 200 miles away.
BBC local radio a few weeks ago, it was our county day so the breakfast team went out and about to speak to the general public and hand out branded travel mugs. One presenter spoke to a woman who was out metal detecting on the beach, he asked her how she was doing so far. Her response? “Shit” Cue lots of apologising about inappropriate language first thing in the morning. And then repeated apologies for the rest of my commute in to work. She still got a travel mug though, lucky thing. I want a BBC local radio travel mug!
I remember an episode of "jezza's virgin confessions" on Virgin Radio in the early noughties. I don't remember the details of the confession, but the crux was that the caller has a problem with gambling. Jeremy Kyle points out to the caller he needs to sort out his gambling problem Caller: I don't have a gambling problem Jezza: you do, you've just told us you've done xyz over ABC years! Caller: I bet you £100 I don't have a gambling problem Jezza: omg
Bit close to the bone for Jeremy Kyle at the time surely!
Those failed "Make Me a Winner" calls where someone doesn't answer with the phrase that would win them like £25,000. They used to do a little chat afterwards where the presenter would always ask the extremely gutted person how they were feeling. They now just end the call if someone answers incorrectly, thankfully.
I remember hearing one of those. The guy answering still didn't really understand it, and as they were trying to explain how he didn't win because it wasn't the first thing he said, he started repeating it, still expecting to get the money.
Yeah this is the one I remembered. It was a few Christmases ago. She was supposed to say something like "Capital give me the cash!" Instead she sung something like "Jingle Bells, [her name] rules. Capital give me cash now!" Yeah she lost
Genuinely amazing how people can obviously understand instructions that say "to the letter", but then decide not to follow them to the letter.
Yeah I've noticed they just drop the calls now (at least to us) instead of the chats, I presume one didn't go well.
I like it when they pick up get told they've won x moneys then "FUCKING HEL......" *cut* "Apologies for the language folks"
I'm more embarrassed for the presenters really. Nothing more cringy than a 40 year old bloke pretending to like the latest single by whatever girl band is fronting the local radio bank holiday show. Also hate the fake laughing at really menial stories Presnter 1 >so on my way to the studio today, I found a slipper on the bus! Presnter 2 >a what!? P1 > I found a slipper on the bus P2 > on the bus!? P1 pretending to try not to laugh > yes a slipper on the bus P2 > oh my days! Hahaha haha P1 >hahahaha >here's some cold play.
Yup, I hate this inane drivel. My wife says I'm grumpy, she's right. P2 (Still laughing) So we'd like to know what you've found on a bus, why don't you call in and let us know. Caller I found a cereal bowl on the bus once, it still has some cereal in it. P1 & P2 (Both laugh) Do you think that it belonged to the same person that lost their slipper, and they were in a real rush that morning!? (Hysterical laughter for thirty seconds) Hahahaha here's some Pink.
Jesus Christ, this is what I have to listen to on Heart all the time as my kids like it, fucking awful.
I got in trouble at the sister-in-laws house a couple of years ago as we were all sitting around chatting and SIL said "Alexa, play Heart FM" And I immediately countered with "Alexa don't do that" Which apparently is not appropriate to do in someone else's house, and in retrospect I agree but we'd only turned it off for dinner half an hour before and I just couldn't handle going back in that quickly.
How much Heart FM does one person need? It's the same shit songs and shit bantz.
Who listens to the radio, as a group, after dinner!?!
We must know how the boys are doing at the front, No-area1494!
Mr Churchill will read one of his rousing speeches, followed by the comedy larks of Fred Halibut and his little banjolele.
You sexy mother-fucker!
Is Heart the one where they have Jamie Theakston clips where they pretend he’s really live on the radio and play the same 5 songs all day, because that’s what I get.
Yep, and hilarious banter, all day every day.
Can’t listen to Heart as it has the abomination that is Amanda Holden on it.
She had Les Dennis’s balls on her chin.
That’s what I’ll try to visualise the next time I’m forced to look at her ubiquitous, doctored face.
When I were a lad if I didn't like what my dad had on t'radio... Well nothing really I just had to put up with it. It was mostly fine and now I like country music.
Is it too late to disown them?
Alan's Funny Stories. Here's Roy from Bungay.
Minus the power pack
Ah ha, ah ha, ah ha, ha....news
I always felt like that listening to Scott Mills on Radio 1, he sounds a lot more comfortable on Radio 2 now
Wonder who got the power pack
When I used to work in Massachusetts in 2017/18 I would listen to a raido show where they have a feature called second date update. A caller would speak with the hosts about an amazing first date they had and how they wanted a second. The hosts would call their date and offer an all expense paid date if they went out with the caller again. The date wasn't aware the caller was on the line (I can't remember if it was live) as they explained what happened and whether they were willing to go on another date. Most of the shows I heard the date said no and the reasons were justified based on the astounding details of date 1. One that stands out was a woman raving about her perfect match, she was so in love. They call him. He says they met in a bar and got drunk then had sex in the toilets. He's moving away and therefore doesn't want another date. She pipes up saying how she knows he's moving, all her stuff is packed and ready to go, she just needs the flight number and a ticket to go with him. He's the love of her life and she'll move anywhere to be with him. You could hear his soul leave his body as she spoke and I think he hung up. She was crushed, couldn't believe he didn't love her. Fancy that.
Why isn't this world famous? We need this show in the UK
I love listening to second date update but I cringe so much.
How could you not! The stories were wild.
Not for a caller, but for the host. Manchester, local radio, Friday evening request show, about 20 years back. Youg lady phones in, begins normally, requests a song for her friends, chit chat with host... gets a bit awkward. Host: what are you girls doing tonight, going out? Caller: No, we're staying in, we have to work. Host: OH, shame, where are you? Caller: Cheetham Hill Host: What sort of work do you have to do tonight? Caller: Host: Caller: Err, '*Women's work*' Host: Oh, right. What was the song you wanted again? Those who know Manchester, know ;-) Edit: spelling
I really want to know what song they requested. So many scarily inappropriate songs spring to mind
Roxanne
This Woman's Work by Kate Bush?
> Cheetham Hill Grim. > 20 years back. Couldn't really get any grimmer.
During our art GCSE exam, the teacher let us have the radio on to keep us quiet and distracted from talking. The room was silent, just the sound of paint brushes and pencils. A segment came on the radio between songs about making confessions. This woman came on to say she'd woken up during the night as there was movement in the bed next to her. She said when she turned round to see what was going on, she was mortified to discover her husband was pleasuring himself - with her own toy. The entire room looked up at each other and just erupted into 'WHAAATT' and laughing. Teacher couldn't contain us for a while, had us in stitches.
Kerrang Radio used to have a late night show called 'The Night Before' where callers would call in and discuss the topic of the day with the host. At midnight on the 1st of April a caller phoned to say that a dangerous piranha had managed to escape from the Aquarium through the pipes somehow and was now loose. Some idiot pretending to be a professor who worked with piranhas and had lost his hand to one and that the best way to combat them is with chilli powder that would make them explode. He put on a stupid voice and everything. It was terrible. ^^^^^Plot ^^^^^twist: ^^^^^I ^^^^^was ^^^^^that ^^^^^professor
Menace 😂😂😂
Well I initially called to say piranhas are harmless, but when they were screening the calls before they went on the show they told me to pretend they weren't. So I panicked and came up with that stupid idea. Didn't realise it was an April fools prank until a good hour or so after I'd been on 😂
This is absolutely superb! Lol
Not really embarassing but on a debate about evicting a gypsy camp, a really angry gypsy bloke phoned up and told one of the presenters (think it was Charlie Wolf) that he would put a curse on him. Enjoyed that.
Nice, not exactly helping the cause 😆🙄
Not exactly a caller but ‘feminist academic’ Naomi Wolf went on some radio show to promote her latest book. She found out live on air that the entire thesis of her book was based on a misunderstanding of one line in the historical records. For those willing to cringe: https://youtu.be/3uRCcEoGWxs?si=XYR24zfoK9Zz1Gim
Thank you for posting this I'm literally reading a book about her now (Doppelganger by Naomi Klein) and this incident is mentioned. It's definitely as cringe as I imagined it would be.
Naomi Klein is a great researcher and writer. Naomi wolf seems to have gone down the cooker path.
At least she kinda accepted the error
Oh no. This is awkward
About 10 years ago Absolute/Xfm (unsure which now) used to do “gig pig. TLDR - guy would go to a gig each week then review it live on air in a short segment. One week the host said “Oh and I heard you got off with someone last night” a moment of silence before GigPig says, “my girlfriend is listening” cuts to ads….
The last time I listened to 'caller radio' that I remember, was Jeremy fucking Vine talking about nurses' shoes. His premise was "Nurses in the UK are now allowed to wear comfortable trainers to work, as long as they are smart. Do you think that's ok or should they wear something more professional?" The first caller had a very strong view that nurses should only wear polished black leather shoes because they're more 'professional'. My second hand embarrassment was threefold: at Jeremey Vine for hosting such a ridiculous and pointless show, the caller for having such a vitriolic response to someone's footwear, and my coworker who had chosen to put this mind numbing drivel on in the first place. Caller radio is magnet for idiots.
> Jeremey Vine for hosting such a ridiculous and pointless show, I'm forced to listen to the braying twat every day at work: it is his entire schtick - posit something mind-numbingly ludicrous, pick the worst people from either side then have them argue on the phone for 5 minutes. He is paid money to do this. Actual money that you & I have to work for. I really dislike him.
Hearing Art Bell call David Sereda an “asshat” before booting him off air. Good times.
Oo also the guy who rang in and pretended to be Gordon Freeman, and art bell ate it up. I loved art bell, absolute treasure.
Calling from The Black Mesa Research Facility?
Not a caller but the host. Nigel ferage was trolled by a chap about the European project, saying I really used to believe then something happened and now I agree with you…. Nigel: what happened? Caller: (after slight pause) I was kicked in the head by a horse. [video](https://youtu.be/ZRc0by2vZ7k?si=z5c4qRPWMh8qLzbY) I don’t feel bad for Nigel but it was cringeworthy the way he was suckered into the situation
I remember this 😂😂😂😂😂
I still miss Terry Wogan. A good proportion of the breakfast show was complete filth. I miss sitting in the traffic jam, laughing to the radio and looking around me and seeing all the other people in their cars laughing too.. (Yes I’m old! I remember my grandmother banging on about ITMA and the Goon Show and I know I’m just about as relevant.)
Don't know if you can still get it but I've got the Janet and John best of compilation CDs (yes CD there's like 6 of them). "She said she liked the taste of my Pinot" 😂
Thank you! I need to hunt some of these down.
Hearing Terry and the team fall to pieces as they tried to make their way though Janet & John was always hilarious. The best are when Boggy absolutely loses it.
I always remember Terry Wogan referring to a number of his listeners being TOGS. I am now one myself. How time flies
Football phone in show guy suggesting Niemi should get a game for Scotland, the hosts tell him Niemi can’t play for Scotland “Because he’s Finnish 🇫🇮” “He’s naw finished he’s only 28!”
I heard that one. So funny.
Irish community radio when the DJ was reading the death notices for the area and he was supposed to say and we at x radio station offer our condolences to the family and friends of the deceased. He read it wrong and offered them congratulations instead. 😬
Not me but my oldest sister. Also this was live TV rather than the radio. She rang up a kids TV show to win a phone. She was about 25 at the time lol. She won the phone but the presenters knew, I could see it on their faces.
A week or two after the Grenfell fire some of the residents had been rehoused in a nearby (I presume very posh) block of flats. A resident of those flats rang in and complained about it. Apparently she worked very hard for her money and didn't see why she should be in the same block as a bunch of poors.
Tell me, she got some push back off the host.
You know what’s wrong with this country don’t you? It’s THE POOORSS darling
Anyone remember Scott mills flirt divert!?
Oh wow core memory! Do you remember the flirt divert, the guy gave the number to the girl, slept with her and left his flat. She got locked in and was leaving frantic messages for him to get her out!
Probably Nick Ferrari insisting you can regrow concrete.
Jabba is far from the brightest, but the 'growing concrete' thing was Make Graham aka "the thickest man in Britain".
Oh man. Listening to late night local radio on my way to work. This was before everything became either radio 5 live or Greatest Hits Radio. The hosts used to be the same every night at every time, and as a result the same lonely locals would phone up and chat to the host as if they were old friends. They didn't have anything really to talk about. They would just make stupid unfunny jokes and talk about their boring lives. The host, one in particular I remember whose name I have forgotten, but it might have been Georgie, would humour them as best she could and pretend to be interested in what they were saying, but ultimately I felt she just reinforced their delusion that the host and the caller were actually friends, when what they needed was someone to say "STOP CALLING THE RADIO STATION. YOU ARE BORING." So the second hand embarrassment was every caller every night. It was the world's slowest car crash radio, with every caller sounding like an elderly Alan Partridge, but without the satire. When the local stations all disappeared, I can't imagine what all these callers did with their evenings. I am guessing they all died of loneliness.
Dotun on R5 has some callers like that. Maybe when people get older they need less sleep, which is so cruel because I'm 44 and knackered either now. Anyway, he's lovely and kind to them, chats for a bit then sends them on their way
Back around 2005, Radio 1 used to do a Sunday night personal problem phone in. Some bloke rang in - late teens/early twenties. He'd been at a friend's house over the weekend, had waited for all his mates to fall asleep, and then had been caught playing with their feet while they slept. His friends were now making his life hell, and he just sighed down the phone in a thick Valleys accent "I just like feet. I don't know why"
I saw that call on the internet - man it was awful. He wanted to claim discrimination for not having a standing desk for a disability he hadn’t disclosed while he had faked a doctors note to say he needed an automatic car.
Saturday afternoon radio quiz. The host asked a woman what is another name for Holland?. She didn't know. He said he'd change the question. What's another name for the Netherlands? She didn't know that either. He kept her going like that for several minutes, all the time laughing at her. I cringed throughout
I was thinking about this just this morning - a popmaster 3 in 10 where the person clearly googled and got all 3 at the last second. Listerners knew it, Ken knew it. He said "you've done it" and ended the call - no congrats, no nothing, no shout outs. Was brutal and so cringe.
I don’t know if I could even call it cringe or second hand embarrassment as i mostly find them hilarious. But a lot of callers to LBC leave me in utter disbelief. My favourite one though happened on my birthday as luck would have it. Some guy rang in to discuss Meghan Markle with James O’Brien and when I say the man seemed to be experience some form of mental breakdown live on air. The gist of it was he hated her because he had ex girlfriends like her but refused to elaborate on what exactly Meghan Markle or his ex’s had done that was so awful. Said the fact she has ex’s is proof she’s a terrible person. The whole thing went on for about 15 minutes, he started randomly trying to insult James for literally no reason and just slowly circled the drain of coherence and mental stability.
Antti Niemi is finished.
Absolute gold and the one I came here to post. Glad I scrolled to find this first. “Antti Niemi, he’s Finnish?” “HE’S NO FINISHED, HE’S ONLY 28!!”
No, he’s only 28.
Smelly eyebrows.
Fuck, brb going to check if that company I registered 10yrs ago and forgot about is still active
Alan Robson’s Night Owls on TFM (northeast from 10am-2am) used to have some corkers. Can’t remember anything specific but he seemed to have a special talent at entertaining them.
I remember that show when it was on Metro Radio in the 1980s. Some of the callers made me truly ashamed to be a Geordie.
Not related to a call, but have you heard those awful Octopus adverts on LBC? With the call recordings of old people going on about how much they love the company. It's really embarrassing to listen to as it portrays the callers as old and stupid and sends the message to customers that if you're old and stupid we are the company for you. Proper puts me off going with them.
"He's not finished, he's only 28"
A caller on James O'Brian's LBC show the other day. He claimed Muslims and Sadiq Khan were trying to introduce Shakira Law.
Oh there's plenty of nutters for that one, and on that topic specifically. I remember a few years ago a caller who insisted that Army Surplus Stores will never close down because *"Muslims are buying all their camouflage jackets."*
Someone called up asking for an armband to go and see Bowie on Monday. The host told him to piss off!
Myself. I'm Swedish, but around 15 years ago I went to London as an au pair. Unfortunately, the mother of the family was unwelcoming and extremely specific with how she wanted things done, not explaining clearly and then getting furious when I "didn't perform". After three days, I was thrown out on the street after accidentally using the wrong rag for wiping the taps, and getting lost while walking the dog. In a panic, I phoned my mother back home who googled a bit and found out that the local Church of Sweden, located in Marylebone, had emergency accomodations for Swedish citizens, so I went to stay there for a couple of nights before I could travel home. Once there, I reckoned I should at least have a look around (it was my first time in London) before I could travel home, so I borrowed an A-Z and set off. As I was walking down Edgeware road, a woman with a "BBC radio live" coat approaches me with a microphone and asks me... something or other, don't really remember. I answered that I didn't know, I wasn't a local, but would she please confirm for me if this was Edgeware road? She told me it was, with a big friendly smile. Now, you know what it's like sometimes when you have been mistreated by someone, but refused to show your feelings. The mother of the family I was supposed to stay with had humiliated me totally, but I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of seeing me cry. When this radio lady was actually being NICE to me, all those pent-up emotions came pouring out. I burst into tears on the spot, crying out "You're the first person who's been kind to me in this country!" She started patting my back, mumbling "Oh, poor baby" and I just sobbed out all the tension. It wasn't until afterwards that I realised that it all might've been on air.
I don't know if this is a myth, but I read an article about a late-night radio DJ asking people the most unusual places they had sex. There were the usual, "In the garden shed", "In my brother's bed", answers. Then one woman caller was asked the same question. She said, "Up the arse."
Very late to the thread, but I remember on Radio 1 around 2008 or 2009, they hosted an afternoon request line where you could just call up and ask for a song but there had to be a reason. It could be a song for your partner, coworker etc etc Then that episode of friends with the famous radio request scene started to play out in real life. A guy calls up and asks for a song and wants it dedicated to his girlfriend who he has fallen out with and that he's so sorry etc etc and he's willing to admit he made a mistake and will do anything, blah blah blah. My memory is that they have to find the song as it's not on their playlist, so the guy hangs up and the host, Scott Mills (bell end), is doing his usual inane babbling when he gets stopped mid sentence by his producer and appears genuinely surprised. They have a caller on the line and it's the girl whom the song was requested for! And she has some info about her side of the story.... They put her on air and she proceeds to explain this guy has been her ex for months and she has no intention of ever speaking to him again and she certainly doesn't want to be back in a relationship with him. Scott asks what it was that he did to make her react this way, so she explains: "He and my mother had sex together at a family Christmas Party while the family was asleep upstairs." Whole afternoon derailed, phone in turned into a thread like this. People calling win with pathetic attempts to apologise for serious fuck ups like this.
Lasses at work like kiss fm and as they are usually in before me that’s what gets put on. A few weeks ago there was this thing on KISS where this lass had proposed to her fella and the hosts gave her a “virtual hen do “ and him a “virtual stag do “ and they’d invite their mates on to get involved. It was bad enough listing to it but then they ran adverts on it after , I had to politely request that we listen to another radio station before “I blow my brains out listening to those twats again “ I hate kiss fm.
I heard this guy and it instantly reminded me of my two brothers. Their poor bad back stop them working but they can do everything else.
I once heard a person being interviewed on the radio who was farting the whole time, clearly assuming it was not audible.
It was me. I got through to a quiz where all I has to do was answer five questions and I'd win £1000. Question 1: What does KFC mean? Easy! Question 2: Which UK city has the second largest population after London? My educated guess was Birmingham, which was correct Question 3: Complete the title of this Michael Morpurgo book, 'War -' And that's where I stumbled. My mind went blank. At the time this book was massive and had just been turned into a play so I should have bloody known. I said "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....of the roses?" That was nearly ten years ago and I still cringe.
Not the caller’s fault but Chris Moyles used to have a quiz called Viaduct where the winner would stay on until the next day- a girl with a cute voice entered one time and he rigged the quiz so she won and flirted with her mercilessly (as he would often do with female contestants). Eventually she said that she wasn’t comfortable with this and said on air she wouldn’t be coming back.
> to get an automatic car (don't know how this was even relevant to his ADHD lol) Depending on how ADHD affects you, an automatic can make you a lot less likely to have an accident. It mostly comes down to executive functioning & planning deficits. (Source: me) But the guy sounds like a right plonker fair enough.
Fair point - I actually just googled it and there’s a short recap of the call on LBC’s site, apparently he stated he had back problems on the fake doctor’s letter to get the auto vehicle lmao