Chris Buribay wanted to know if the queen lived inside a TV show. He asked Buckingham Palace, but was told he couldn't record their answers. So he emailed people who had met her on royal visits and got back to them within an hour. One man said it was "kind of uninspiring" when she visited Parliament Hill in 2002.
The whole conceit of this show is that if look at the world in the right way, you’ll see stories everywhere. Some of the stories are epic power struggles chronicling the construction of a famous skyscraper or the founding of a city; but other stories are more modest, smaller in scope and scale. We call those mini-stories and they're part of an ongoing, end-of-the-year tradition in which 99pi producers and friends of the show talk to host Roman Mars about something cool and fun that you can tell your friends or family about during a holiday get together.
You’ll hear about a very, very long escalator! Beavers dropping from the sky! We’ll hear from Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty! Plus a visit from the queen!
Mini-Stories 15: Volume 15