Radiohead

“Lucky” has been chosen as the single from the Help album for War Child, and the band are pleased and slightly wary. Thom Yorke says they kept their distance from the organising, wanting it to stay a collective effort, and calls the project a more ego-free version of the charity records that came before it. He is glad “Lucky” was picked for a practical reason. It was the best song they had written that month, so nothing had to be dusted off or re-recorded for the occasion.

The rest, from a Scottish music programme, is the band being interviewed badly and enjoying it, including an appeal to viewers for advice on how to wash a particular pair of trousers.

A cricket bat taken to America was confiscated at Chicago airport, where a customs officer asked its owner what he was doing with the paddle.