Greg James Thats What He Said

Joe Lycett positioned himself in the Live Lounge with a mystery guest and we had some great and ridiculous guesses, including Kylie, the skip lady, Billy from DIY SOS and Jake the Snake. But who was the guest?

Listener Jake texted to say he slept through his alarm and was in danger of missing his flight to Dubai. The tension rose as Greg and the whole nation got behind him, but did he make it on time? Also we had a BBQ-related Storytime with Harry Redknapp and some listeners told us their own Don’t Say It situations.

The fact controller confirms the height of a penguin, listener Ben hears a strange sound on a plane and Greg adapts the Don’t Say It meme for radio and tries it out on Theresa May.

Jon Richardson manned Radio 1 phone lines and we found out Greg and him have a mutual love for Nick Knowles. Also Greg spoke to the woman who stands in skips to measure they’re size, and reviewed the success of Saturday night’s Strictly crowd fist pump!

Ben from Biffy Clyro clears up Nick Knowles’ claim that he’s gigged with them, Greg has a Strictly Come Pumping request and why is Comedian Chris Ramsey making jokes about Greg’s Aunty Pam?

Actual Lorraine Kelly came in to ‘Lorraine’ on Radio 1 listeners’ parades and she threatened to smack Greg’s bottom... we had another edition of Storytime with Harry Redknapp, and we heard about games you play that you haven’t said out loud before.

Harry Redknapp is like that guy down the pub who tells all sorts of stories… He was telling some tales on I’m A Celeb so Greg popped them over some laddy music. The result was delightful. We also have another edition of Fact Controller with Dotty & Roisin and some Lorraine On Your Parade news (announced live on Lorraine!)

Louis Theroux pops in to give some non-judgemental advice to listeners, and we hear the incredible sound of him hitting a piñata full of cheese... Plus Radio 1 listeners settle the ‘Who Farted at the Darts’ debate.

Mumford & Sons create songs from Radio 1 listeners’ bleak morning stories and we hear a traumatising Unpopular Opinion from Lewis Capaldi involving bananas…

Today’s nonsense included sneaking cheese into Jess Glynne’s Live Lounge, Riding horses through the drive-thru and Unpopular Opinions from DJ Ace.

Eddie Redmayne is here to spread some magical Christmas spirit by turning on a listener’s Christmas lights. He also talked about the new Fantastic Beasts film, Jude Law as a sexy Dumbledore or should we say 'Dumblephwoar' and he reacted to Dan from Bastille’s unpopular opinion that Harry Potter should’ve died at the end of the last book.

Greg noticed that Lorraine Kelly gave away Louis Smith's big announcement leaving him with nothing to say, and then decided to Lor-RAIN on a few other people's parades. Plus Zara Larsson gave us her Unpopular Opinion which lead to producer Will revealing a shocking habit involving apples.

The Fact Controller was in and blew Dotty’s mind with some cheesy sheep facts, Dan from Bastille had a very unpopular opinion about Harry Potter and Greg shared some more messages from moments when shuffle has let listeners down, like listener Chris who was in a car full of lads playing heavy metal when High School Musical came on. Cringe!!

Benedict Cumberbatch plays What’s My Age Again? Greg imagines what Gregg Wallace sounds like watching fireworks and Danny Howard’s holiday music mishap inspires some great awkward shuffle moments.

Greg tries to cheer everyone up on a gloomy Monday morning with some of his favourite audio clips, including Leigh-Anne gargling the Strictly theme song and Joe Lycett’s beautiful R1 breakfast poem. Also Jorja Smith has sent Greg an outrageous Unpopular Opinion and have you ever mistaken a famous person for an old friend? Seems lots of you have.

Today’s show was live from a pod on The London Eye (called Ear for today) to help launch the new BBC Sounds app. Can your day be any weirder? Plus Gregg Wallace got excited about beans and Lord Sugar does another stand-up routine.

Jack Whitehall plays What’s My Age Again, we find out Benedict Cumberbatch goes trick or treating, and a listener sees a photo frame, being sold in the Maldives, containing a very odd photo!

Comedian Tom Allen is in the phone room and listener Nikki visits the lobby before the refurb team bring down the wall and her picture that has greeted Radio 1 guests for 6 years – complete with choir and newsreader Simon McCoy for the send-off.

Game Of Phones concludes as listener Stephanie gets through to Gordon Ramsay then Greg has an idea!

Day 2 of Game of Phones. It's Isaac's birthday, but can he get through to Gordon Ramsay?Plus Greg gives Lord Sugar the Live at the Apollo treatment and Gregg Wallace is at a crisp factory.