Xfm Series 2

Xfm Series 2 August 2002 - August 2003 List of episodes

Episodes: 24 August 2002 (Transcript) 31 August 2002 (Transcript) 07 September 2002 (Transcript) 14 September 2002 (Transcript) ('Best of') 21 September 2002 (Transcript) 28 September 2002 (Transcript) 05 October 2002 (Transcript) 12 October 2002 (Transcript) 19 October 2002 (Transcript) 26 October 2002 (Transcript) 02 November 2002 (Transcript) 09 November 2002 (Transcript) 16 November 2002 (Transcript) 23 November 2002 (Transcript) 30 November 2002 (Transcript) 07 December 2002 (Transcript) 14 December 2002 (Transcript) 21 December 2002 (Transcript) 28 December 2002 (Transcript) ('Best of') 04 January 2003 (Transcript) 11 January 2003 (Transcript) 18 January 2003 (Transcript) 25 January 2003 (Transcript) 01 February 2003 (Transcript) 08 February 2003 (Transcript) 15 February 2003 (Transcript) 22 February 2003 (Transcript) ('Best of') 01 March 2003 (Transcript) ('Best of') 08 March 2003 (Transcript) 15 March 2003 (Transcript) 22 March 2003 (Transcript) 29 March 2003 (Transcript) 05 April 2003 (Transcript) 12 April 2003 (Transcript) 19 April 2003 (Transcript) 26 April 2003 (Transcript) 03 May 2003 (Transcript) 10 May 2003 (Transcript) 17 May 2003 (Transcript) 31 May 2003 (Transcript) 07 June 2003 (Transcript) 14 June 2003 (Transcript) 21 June 2003 (Transcript) 28 June 2003 05 July 2003 12 July 2003 19 July 2003 26 July 2003 02 August 2003 09 August 2003 16 August 2003

24 August 2002

Ricky, Steve and Karl compare their individual journeys back from the Edinburgh Festival. Karl, who spent the week producing Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Xfm show, tells ghost stories they'd told him to Ricky and Steve. Later, Karl mishears 'mammoth' as 'man moth'.

31 August 2002

Ricky and Steve interview Karl to re-introduce him to the listening public. Karl reveals the true origin of the phrase 'chucking the baby out with the bathwater'. And Karl starts a competition he calls 'What's The Song', that in later shows becomes Rockbusters.

07 September 2002

Steve explains how Ricky and Karl spent the half hour before the show playing football but things turn sour when Karl is annoyed that Ricky can't record links for the 'Best Of' show that will play next week because he must leave immediately after to go on holiday. Later Karl talks about people with big heads and no heads, and his competition turns into such a farce that even he laughs at it.

14 September 2002

A "best of" show, as Ricky and Steve are off to film The Office.

28 September 2002

Karl is absent as Suzanne has taken him to The Canary Islands for his birthday. Claire Sturgess stands in for Karl.

05 October 2002

Karl is away for another week as when he was on holiday his dad was sent to hospital and he had to help with things.

12 October 2002

The very first week of Rockbusters. Karl makes a number of suggestions of further possible radio quizzes including; Strike it Ricky; Big Mother, a concept in which listeners can win a CD if they have a heavy mother and The Rice is Right. Karl also introduces the new feature Educating Ricky, a title derived from the film Educating Rita in which he educates Ricky and Steve. The topics of education for the first week include 'Hairy Chinese Kid'.

19 October 2002

Ricky's got a hangover, and the second week of Rockbusters.

02 November 2002

The first email from Richard Anderson aka Dicky Anderson, The Dickster… Karl trys to sell his futon and desk combo for £100. Karl has a small laughing fit during rockbusters, a lot of people claim to have never heard Karl laugh.

16 November 2002

Ricky and Steve discuss Karl being labelled as a genius in Heat Magazine.

23 November 2002

MTV have offered Karl the opportunity to record a screen test. He is however reluctant to do this. Karl plays a recorded interview with a woman who claims to have a ghost living in her house in a short feature entitled 'Pilkington', music from television's 'Parkinson' is used.

07 December 2002

Karl records his screen test for MTV today. Ricky and Steve 'educate' Karl alongside the usual Educating Ricky reading him two fictional stories ,demonstrate how gullible Karl is when reading internet material.

14 December 2002

Karl is away again today, Claire Sturgess pushes the buttons in his absence.

28 December 2002

A "best of" show.

04 January 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 1)

11 January 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 2)

18 January 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 3)

25 January 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 4)
The Birth of Monkey News!

01 February 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 5)

08 February 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 6)

22 February 2003

A "best of" show.

01 March 2003

A "best of" show.

08 March 2003

Claire Sturgess is producing; Karl's ill

U2 - "Beautiful Day" "Karl's ill... well, he's not here... he'd better be in hospital" Coldplay - "Clocks" Is Karl a chimp? Wedding Present - "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday" Karl and Steve were in LA the past two weeks talking about redoing The Office in the USA/Steve's passport expired - "" Oasis - "Supersonic" Where is Karl? Aimee Mann - "Red Vines" More about Oliver The Human-zee Zwan - "Honestly" Claire can't work the phone E-Mail from Richard Anderson: "There's something making strange yelping noises in the thicket at the end of may garden - shall I go and prod it to see if it's Karl? P.S. The show's still rubbish without Karl"/Karl's answerphone message/Call Karl on 07968 157*** Feeder - "Just The Way I'm Feeling" Karl's been slagging Steve off Patti Smith - "Because The Night" Let's do a better show without Karl Richard Ashcroft - "Buy It In Bottles" Blur - "Out Of Time" Steve fancies the woman from the Scottish Widows advert Bad Company - "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love" Ricky in a rock mood Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" Rush - "Spirit Of Radio" Ian Camfield/The A Team Karl phones in - he's ill because he forgot to eat when his girlfriend was away. And she was away again this week and he put wet jeans on. Kings Of Leon - "Molly Chambers" More Karl Hot Hot Heat - "Bandages"

15 March 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 7)

22 March 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 8)

29 March 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 11)

05 April 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 9)

12 April 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 10)

19 April 2003

Claire is producing because Karl is on holiday, Steve has been ill in the week

U2 - "Beautiful Day" Karl is away with his girlfriend and her parents Blur - "Where Is The Love?" Ricky's a hypochondriac who worries about cancer, Steve's very sickly and thinks he's got SARS Bruce Springsteen - "Lonesome Day" Turin Brakes - "Painkiller (Summer Rain)" Steve fancies Louise Woodward Ten Storey Love Song - "Stone Roses" Where is Louise Woodward working? Peter Gabriel - "Solsbury Hill" Placebo - "The Bitter End" Butlins/"Reborn In The USA"/Ricky's experiences on the road with Seona Dancing: "Bucks Fizz tried to smuggle us onto the plane" Neil Young - "Man Needs A Maid" Radiohead - "There There" Innovations catalogue is being shut down Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" Feeder - "Think About Tomorrow" Competition for "25th Hour" tickets The Smiths - "Reel Around The Fountain" "Horrible, scary" collectable dolls/mental case who was obsessed with Mike Read: "Imagine you were in a love triangle with her and Louise Woodward." "I'd let them wrestle it out, nude in a hotel room." Coldplay - "Clocks" Send e-mails to Karl, Ricky and Andrew Phillips saying the show was better without Karl Ed Harcourt - "The Birds Will Sing For Us"

26 April 2003

Karl is back, Steve's had a sore throat all week and went home in the week

Blur - "Where Is The Love?" Why does a sore throat stop you working? "It's a bit like that Ronnie Corbet thing..." /Ricky hurdt his back but still did a voiceover in the week... "I'll play you what he did..." Thin Lizzy - "The Boys Are Back In Town" "I think it's stress: I travel in on the tube - I saw a Chinaman sneeze, I Was terrified!"/the first time Suzanne was ill she saw the real Karl/Karl giving out biscuits to old people "because he had good nails"/"I do a voiceover for X-Ray Magazine... they let me make up the script" Voiceover 1: "We can *possibly" put that out on xfm - but we need one for Capital" Voiceover 2: Dr Frog "I had to play them to the MD..." "I'd like to hear Dr. Frog featuring on our show more..!" Badly Drawn Boy - "All Possibilities" "I've got some new characters..." Camp David, The Right Queer Gay/Ho Lee Fuk, the little funny Chinese guy/return of Rockbusters Sugar - "If I Can Change Your Mind" Gayvid Gray, the Bent Piano player The Who - "The Seeker" What would Richard Anderson sound like?/Rockbusters: "The gingerbread man Has Only Got One Leg": LB, "These people from the East Midlands swear a lot: TTB; "Have a holiday in Italy": TB Feeder - "Think About Tomorrow" Placebo - "The Bitter End" Ricky's friends are all different/his mate Robin has little thumbs/Educating Ricky: "Rule Of Thumb" The Cure - "A Forest" Rockbusters results: Limp Bizkit, Terrence Trent Darby, Turin Brakes Radiohead - "There There" Don't give away the secret of Rockbusters Steely Dan - "Reeling In The Years" "You can say that I look like something you can buy in Forbidden Planet, but not someone who shops there!"/Auctioning Ricky's sketch of Karl, "EVen an ill person would say 'you don't have to have your head squooze for us'."/Karl's holiday with Suzanne's parents - "you're a monster, Karl!" U2 - "With Or Without You" "Cheeky Freak Of The Week" - dog people: "this is real..." "They're human beings who have deformed legs..." "Would you serve her in a restaurant?" "The premise being what?" "Well, restaurants don't serve animals..."/Monkey News: "Alfred was the monkey who robbed the robbers..." The monkeys bargain with the zookeepers to let them go for 250 grand: "If he was planning on leaving the zoo, he's going to withdraw his savings..." REM - "What's The Frequency Kenneth?" "Do you think when Marconi invented radio that this was what he had in mind for it?"

03 May 2003

This week's show is going for the Sony Award

Richard Ashcroft - "Buy It In Bottles" "It's the Sonys this week, so make it a good one." That can work against you: Karl's dad meeting a bloke who looked like Ken Dodd, guy on the radio thought noise in the background on the phone was a parrot but it was a woman's Down's Syndrome child The Smiths - "Panic" Karl didn't pass on the message that someone was looking for Steve to offer him some voiceover work Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Beautiful" "You're worse than my agent!" "At least when his agent does it he's losing himself money as well!" Warren Zeavon - "I Ain't That Pretty At All" Rockbusters: "the hitchhiker needs a lift, but in something bigger than a car": VH, "Don't be selfish - hands some of it out to your mates": C, "the Scottish fellas can't get into their e-mails": KL REM - "Man In The Moon" Evan - "Stop My Head" People in cinemas The Beatles - "Let It Be" 50 Cent - "In Da Club" Steve and Karl are arguing/Women can get treatment for baldness on the NHS, but men can't... Karl's bald head isn't a "hairdo" or "style"

10 May 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 12)

17 May 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 13)

31 May 2003

Blur - "Out Of Time" Ricky has done his back in wrestling - "Have you seen gorillas fighting?" Rod Stewart - "Maggie May" Fax machines and letters The Darkness - "Growing On Me" Steve's new sunglasses New York Dolls - "Trash" Coldplay - "The Scientist" Tattoos Thin Lizzy - "Don't Believe A Word" Piercing and Ricky's earrings Lil' Kim - "Jump Off" Placebo - "This Picture" Rockbusters - "Customer wanted some paint to darken up her room, the shop assistant knew what to do": CB; "It'd be all right if their heads weren't so large": SF; "Chanel have got another perfume out": NO Bob Marley - "Stir It Up" Cheeky Freak Of The Week: Lobster Man and the Siamese twins who were run over - "why didn't he look both ways?" Red Hot Chilli Peppers - "Universally Speaking" "Guess who's coming to dinner" The Smiths - "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" Nelson Mandela Athlete - "Westside" Marina Topley-Bird - "Need One" Monkey News: number 86, the monkey who was a magician's assistant, stole his car and drove to Spain - "You must know that is shit." "Mad, innit?" Suede - "Stay Together" Rockbusters: Cilla Black, Small Faces, New Order Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold The World"

07 June 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 14)

21 June 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 15)

28 June 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 16)

05 July 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 17)

19 July 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 18)

26 July 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 19)

16 August 2003

(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 20)