Stephen Fry’s On! Would He Rap With Taylor Swift?
The Scott Mills Weekly
BBC
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Classic Mills from the archives when the awesome Stephen Fry was on the show. Scott and Chris had so much to ask him! Including: does he watch himself on TV (he is on ALL the time), did he really invent the word ‘luvvie’ and why does he hate dancing so much?? Also, with some listeners’ help, the boys hatched an amazing plan to get him rapping with Taylor Swift at the Big Weekend in his home town, Norwich.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe? |
| 0:05.1 | Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right? |
| 0:10.6 | We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better. |
| 0:13.4 | It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically, |
| 0:17.6 | but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music. |
| 0:21.5 | It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint. |
| 0:25.0 | Sidetracked with us, Annie and Nick, |
| 0:27.0 | listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.0 | We're not on this week, we're back next week, but here's some good bits from yesterday |
| 0:38.9 | year. |
| 0:39.9 | Huh! |
| 0:40.9 | Stephen Frost Stephen Frye, good afternoon. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello Scott. |
| 0:47.0 | It is lovely to have you on BBC Radio 1. |
| 0:49.0 | It's lovely to be had by you. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, when was the, was the time before, can you remember being on Radio 1? |
| 0:57.0 | I think the first time I was on Radio 1 was back in 1918, too. |
| 1:03.8 | It was during the Falklands War, |
| 1:05.3 | and I was taken off because I did a parody of a news |
| 1:09.7 | war reporter. |
| 1:10.8 | It was considered inappropriate. |
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