Few things seem more noughties than the prank call. From Chris Moyles on the radio or Trigger Happy and Fonejacker on TV, to you and your friends in your bedroom - everyone was doing them. It felt like you could while away hours pranking people from school or even just ringing random names from...

During lockdown, Noughties Podcast co-host Tom Pooley had the privilege of spending his days on Zooms calls with legendary broadcaster Tony Blackburn, recording his BBC Radio 2 Show. Each week, after Tony had recorded his links, the two of them would stay on the line for 10 minutes making small...

During the noughties, the August bank holiday was truly a tale of two cities: Reading and Leeds. Thousands of teenagers and early 20-somethings flocked to both of them for the festival weekend, armed with tents, sleeping bags, crates of Strongbow and their recently acquired exam results. The...