Watch out, the Potato Warden's about! Plus, Steps are here!
The Scott Mills Weekly
BBC
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Scott's on a mission to get some of SpudMan's world-famous jacket potatoes delivered to Broadcasting House... but you wouldn't believe the faff to get a spud into the BBC!
Claire, Lisa, Faye, Lee and H are in the studio for an exclusive chat with Scott about the Steps musical.
Baroness Karen Brady and Tim Campbell MBE from The Apprentice are in the studio with Scott to review your top life improving tips. But are there any that they'd hire?
And Scott's learning to play the triangle with the BBC Concert Orchestra's Principal Percussionist, Alasdair Malloy. It's harder than it looks, you know!
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi my name's Tommy Dixon and I make podcast for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories |
| 0:09.8 | always loved a good book but when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered |
| 0:14.0 | podcasts. I was blown away about how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds |
| 0:18.6 | could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that |
| 0:22.4 | make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to give it a go myself, |
| 0:26.3 | which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole new career given other people that exact same feeling. |
| 0:33.0 | So if you want to hear amazing stories that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or a click |
| 0:37.3 | away on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.8 | The Scott Mills Weekly. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, that's been a bonkers week on Radio 2. |
| 0:47.5 | All thanks to Potatoes. |
| 0:49.8 | More to come, including the lengths you have to go to to sneak a spud into the BBC. |
| 0:55.0 | It does involve High Viz and a clipboard. |
| 0:57.5 | That one is real. |
| 0:58.5 | Also Baroness Karen Brady and Tim Campbell from The Apprentice rate your life hacks. |
| 1:03.7 | You're fired. |
| 1:04.7 | Who knew the triangle is actually a very difficult instrument to play? |
| 1:09.2 | And all five of steps are in the studio. I've got Jackie and Thrustington here and you've not lived until you've had a jacket spud with garlic butter, |
| 1:24.4 | pineapple and cheese in that order, the best ever. |
| 1:28.4 | Not convinced about the pineapple. Thank you Jackie. This is after we were talking |
| 1:31.7 | last week about a spub man. A man in Tamworth has gone Thank you're |
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