Synopsis
The best bits of nonsense from BBC Radio 1's The Greg James show every week. Including big name interviews, Star Caller, Ask The Nation and other guff from Gregs weird head.
Episodes
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Ainsley's Quarantine Kitchen
22/04/2020 Duration: 33minWhy hellooo podcasters! Ainsley Harriott gives some listeners advice on what to do with the contents of their fridge, Simon Neil from Biff Clyro calls with news of a Stay At Home Live Lounge and can yesterday's disastrous Better Days Quiz be beaten? (Probably).
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Onions, Teeth and Spanners
21/04/2020 Duration: 32minFollowing a story about a 1 year old accidentally ordering a very expensive bag of onions, we hear stories of things you have ordered online by mistake. Also, Everyone's Rubbish reveals some disastrous blunders and it's listener Susie's birthday and she's all alone (sad face) but don't worry, a member of the public comes to the rescue.
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Mable & Olive News!
20/04/2020 Duration: 44minSports commentator Andrew Cotter explains how fame is affecting Mable & Olive – the competing Labradors, we catch up with our Lockdown Tinder date couple Nigel and Lauren and a listen back to rather disastrous Better Days Quiz.
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Remember … The Fantastic Beasts?
16/04/2020 Duration: 31minA special podcast of fantastic beasts. Remember the great Middlesbaaah Sheep Dash? Or the time Eddie Redmayne visited and who was Joe Lycett’s mystery Live Lounge guest? And everyone’s favourite beast, Greg, is back on the show next week.
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Remember … Lewis Capaldi’s Bleak Mornings?
15/04/2020 Duration: 32minGreg is still on his well-earned rest, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to hear some of the best bits from the archive, like Lewis Capaldi singing your Bleak Mornings, Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan with the Fact Controller, Prue Leith’s reaction to Greg’s impression of her and Chris Pratt playing Unpopular Opinion.
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Remember … Louis Theroux’s Cheese Piñata?
14/04/2020 Duration: 31minGreg is still on his well-earned rest, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to hear some of the best bits from the archive, like The Newbridge Bum Tree, Jack Whitehall playing What’s My Age Again and Louis Theroux totally destroying a Piñata full of cheese.
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Remember When…Sean Paul Was Here?
09/04/2020 Duration: 36minGreg is having a well-earned rest this week, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to hear some of the best bits from the archive, like Jodie Whittaker playing What’s My Age Again, Greg’s mischievous Tweet to a supermarket, Lewis Capaldi’s awful Unpopular Opinion and Sean Paul, hater of blackbirds, judged Impossible Karaoke.
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Remember …The Big Hootenany?
08/04/2020 Duration: 26minGreg is having a well-earned rest this week, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to hear some of the best bits from the archive, like Mumford & Sons creating songs from Radio 1 listeners’ bleak morning stories, Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish playing a hilarious round of Unpopular Opinion and the time the whole of the U.K beeped their horns to Fisher’s Losing It.
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Remember… Beale Over Beckham & The Hotdog Debate?
07/04/2020 Duration: 24minGreg is having a well-earned rest this week, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to hear some of the best bits from the archive, like a granny reading the Winky Wonky Donkey story, Chloë Grace Moretz trying to persuade Amber's mum to take her to Thorpe Park, Matty from The 1975 in Game Of Phones and a shocking revelation about David Beckham in Unpopular Opinion.
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Remember When…A Gecko Called?
06/04/2020 Duration: 21minGreg is having a well-earned rest this week, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to hear some of the best bits from the archives, like Zara Larsson singing and playing Unpopular Opinion, an Ask the Nation about going for dinner with a bear, an amazing Harry Redknapp story and the time Greg got a gecko to call people.
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Egg In Da Hole!!
02/04/2020 Duration: 21minThe wonderful Gregg Wallace has stepped up to our request for a special cooking class, Jordan North is back learning more Korean phrases and the ANIMALS ARE RUNNING RIOT!! We hear all about it in Animal News.
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Justin Timberlake & Anna Kendrick - Unpopular Opinion
01/04/2020 Duration: 29minGreg gets Justin and Anna singing along to the Unpopular Opinion theme – although Justin claims he “doesn’t do singing!” What?? Also, we get listener Lauren’s response to Nigel’s amazing revelation on yesterday’s show and Ali Plumb calls in with some great ideas of what to watch at home.
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Rose Matafeo & A Big Confession
31/03/2020 Duration: 32minComedian Rose Matafeo calls from her “Self iso” in New Zealand with advice to avoid mirrors at all cost, more couples are finding some strange things out about their partners in these strange times and who better to cheer us all up than Gregg Wooow Wallace cooking some beef bourguignon?
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Welcome To Club Isolation!
30/03/2020 Duration: 30minWe catch up with all the inventive ways you have been keeping yourself amused, including a family who had a pub crawl all around their house. Also, more stories of everyone being rubbish, a new twist on Yesterday’s Quiz and 여보세요! - We catch up with Jordan North-Korea.
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Big Narstie & Reverend Kate
26/03/2020 Duration: 24minBig Narstie calls up some listeners using a myriad of crazy accents, TV's Reverend Kate Bottley helps out listener Sophie with a marriage problem and we hear from listeners in new relationships that have taken the plunge and have decided to isolate together.
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Boss, North & Plumb
25/03/2020 Duration: 30minJoe Lycette (or should we say Hugo) calls to let us know how he’s coping in lockdown, Jordan North (or should we say North-Korea) is learning how to speak Korean BTS style, and Ali Plumb (or should we say ..err Ali Plumb) gives us the lowdown on all the wonderful stuff to watch on our screens.
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Katherine Ryan Calls
24/03/2020 Duration: 22minGreg speaks to comedian Katherine Ryan who has some serious questions about the lockdown, more stories of “Everyone’s Rubbish” including a man inviting a prison break and a challenge is set to Radio 1’s very own Jordan North.
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Giant lasagnes & Patrolling Lions
23/03/2020 Duration: 28minFake news with Shannon and Fact Controller with Róisín and Sideman bring up the usual bizarre situations, Burnley V Watford is the latest RPS fixture and Radio 1’s money-saver turns life-saver as Matt Edmonson gives an important announcement.
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Out A Shovel On It!
19/03/2020 Duration: 28minA story about a NASA machine on Mars inspires your stories of “silly ideas…that actually worked. Also, Romesh Ranganathan calls in from his tetchy, isolated home and the show’s favourite school teacher Mr. Burton offers words of encouragement to the nation’s students.
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We Are Here To Help
18/03/2020 Duration: 21minWhen the world seems a bit crazy, we set out bring you some joy! What with flatulent Mayors, bored sports commentators, whacky pop stars and Jordan North. Bless them all.