4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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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.
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0:48.0 | Today I want to bring you a tale which involves a lady called Nicky and a wall, well the wall doesn't have a name, but here's the story. |
0:58.0 | A few weeks ago on Radio on Breakfast, I put something up on my Instagram story that changed one |
1:04.9 | listener's life forever. It was a video showing a wall at Radio 1 which is |
1:12.1 | outside the lift, that everyone sees every single day, every |
1:16.5 | DJ, every member of staff, every special celebrity guest that comes into the |
1:21.4 | building they all see this wall. |
1:23.0 | On that wall is a picture of a young lady. |
1:29.0 | At a festival on someone's shoulders, |
1:31.0 | for the want of a better phrase, having it large. |
1:35.7 | That girl, it turns out, is Nicky, who grew up in a small town in Derbyshire. |
1:47.0 | Her sister saw my Instagram story and alerted her and said, Oh my God why is my sister on the wall? And she'd never been told of this and for six years Nicky had been the face that |
1:57.3 | greets everyone at Radio 1 and she was none the wiser. From a small town in Derbyshire that hadn't seen the likes of |
2:05.3 | Jay-Z, Adele, Tom Cruz, Justin Bieber and Jennifer Lawrence, but they'd all |
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