Xfm Series 2
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 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.
21 September 2002
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.
26 October 2002
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.
9 November 2002
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.
30 November 2002
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.
21 December 2002
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)
15 February 2003
22 February 2003
A "best of" show.
01 March 2003
A "best of" show.
08 March 2003
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
26 April 2003
03 May 2003
10 May 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 12)
17 May 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 13)
31 May 2003
07 June 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 14)
14 June 2003
21 June 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 15)
28 June 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 16)
05 July 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 17)
12 July 2003
19 July 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 18)
26 July 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 19)
09 August 2003
16 August 2003
(Xfm: Season 1 Volume 20)