Weekend Wake Up Podcast

The weekend when the most complained about TV show in 2011 was revealed, Google let slip what the most requested how to searches were across the whole year and TV chef James Martin popped into the studio to help out on Brief Encounters.

The weekend when Chris the Cabbie had Craig Charles in the back of his taxi, the lads from McFly could not stop winning reality TV shows and a Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson battled it out for a big TV.

The weekend when Seann William Scott popped in to talk about his new movie Goon, Dancing On Ice started up on TV and I had an issued with some of the stars and there was a warning about making non-essential 999 calls.

The weekend when Simon Cowell described Andrew Stone off Celebrity Big Brother as TV gold, a new pill was unveiled that could spell the end of having to go to the gym and Rebecca Ferguson dropped by to talk about her debut album Heaven and an extra Liverpool date.

The weekend when it was announced Daybreak would come to an end on ITV 1, people were told not to worry about the Mayan end of the world in December 2012 and Olly Murs dropped by to talk X Factor and his brand new album In Case You Didn’t Know.

The weekend when JLS and One Direction hijacked a key-change in a charity single, a load of the cast from “Calendar Girls” got in the back of Chris the Cabbie's taxi and the year-long battle on Me Vs You came to a close (but who won).

The weekend when Lee Evans got all hot and sweaty in the back of Chris the Cabbie's taxi, I told you how much the internet weighs and Tim got the best score yet in the quarter-finals of Radio City’s Music Head.

The weekend when my car’s MOT ended up having its own “X Factor” moment, ‘Chris the Cabbie’ was entertaining Jane McDonald in the back of his taxi, and there was a nightmare when a load of zombies were injured on a film set.

The weekend when a direct link between your brain and the number of friends you have on Facebook was established, Lee Nelson took his “Well Good” show on the road for the Southport Comedy Festival, and a psychic sheep tried to predict the Rugby World Cup final.

The weekend when Phil from Location Location Location lent a hand on Brief Encounters to help you win a holiday, Steps were close to a reunion and nearly appeared on The X Factor, and Darren Hayes dropped in for a cuppa.

The weekend when Nicola Roberts said as much as she could about a Girls Aloud reunion, Prague got itself a new superhero in the shape of Super Vaclav, and Chris the Cabbie wasn’t fussed about having Paddy McGuiness in the back of his taxi.

The weekend when two computers talked to each other for the first time and argued after 13 seconds, Chris the Cabbie revealed some inside goss on Strictly Come Dancing, and an elk got drunk in Sweden and made a show of itself.

The weekend when the best bogs in the world were revealed, Andrew Cuddly Toy Roachford had a go at an American accent on Brief Encounters, and the woman with the longest fingernails in the world became my biggest nightmare.

The weekend when Charlie from Busted and Fightstar went solo and came in for a chat, a load of nudists were up in arms about a block of flats going up overlooking where they like to go starkers, and Jamie Theakston did his best Frankie Howerd impression on ‘Brief Encounters.

The weekend when a load of new ‘techie’ terms made it into the new Oxford English dictionary including ‘retweet’, Joe McElderry booked in a tour date for the Philharmonic Hall, and the ‘Brief Encounters’ champ was getting big headed ahead of me going away to Italy for 10 days.

The weekend when a load of new ‘techie’ terms made it into the new Oxford English dictionary including ‘retweet’, Joe McElderry booked in a tour date for the Philharmonic Hall, and the ‘Brief Encounters’ champ was getting big headed ahead of me going away to Italy for 10 days.

The weekend when bookies started taking bets on what Lady GaGa will wear at the MTV VMAs, The Reason 4 (the manband from last year’s The X Factor) came in for a chat, and Russia finally classified beer as booze (you won’t believe what it previously was believed to be).

The weekend when I caught up with one of the stars of “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes” who made his name in “Spooks”, an Arnold Schwarzenegger museum opened in Austria, and Chris the Cabbie came face to face with Example (possibly) after an encounter with Scouting For Girls (maybe).

The weekend when Jason Derulo came in on the show and told me which American actor I looked like, a couple in Portsmouth launched the “autowed” machine, and ‘Chris the Cabbie’ revealed an encounter with someone who looked like they should have been in East 17.

The weekend when ‘Chris the Cabbie’ was obsessed with Liz McLarnon (who was also on the show), Lady GaGa revealed the quaint British TV show she has become obsessed with, and there was some bad, good, bad and more good news about Jedward heading out on a UK tour.

The weekend when I introduced you to ‘Chris the Cabbie’ (the most well connected taxi driver on Merseyside), I grabbed a load of tickets to the Liverpool premiere of the last Harry Potter movie, and a guy painted every single thing he managed to eat in a year.

The weekend when I caught up with Nick Frost about “Paul” and told him why I waited two weeks to see it at the cinema, Lindsay Lohan worked out how to make some money while sat at home, and a massive game of Glastonbury twister and a load of wallys in one place became record breakers.

The weekend when I caught up with Melissa McCarthy about her new movie Bridesmaids, if you lived in Norway you could watch streaming footage 24/7 from onboard a cruise ship, and boffins revealed how to make the perfect cup of tea.

The weekend when a girl called Debbie became very famous for a dating video in which she told everyone how much she loved cats, MI6 revealed some details about Operation Cupcake, and Tinchy Stryder came up the tower to talk about Radio City Live.