SUMMER holiday boredom landed Alex Henry and her friends a spot on Radio 1.

In 2007, the girls – Jo Stagg, Julia Martin, Abbie Hepworth, Grace McKerrell and Miss Henry – did their own version of band OK Go’s A Million Ways.

OK Go’s original video features choreographed dance moves.

The girls wanted to do a version of the more-famous video for Here It Goes Again, by the same band, but a lack of running machines as featured in that video stopped them.

It took the whole summer to perfect the dance moves before they filmed it on the last day of the holidays.

Two years later, Miss Henry, now 18, saw an opportunity to send the footage to Radio 1. Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yeates host a weekend show and their website features Request Show TV, for which listeners can make videos that go with the songs they want to hear.

Unbeknown to her friends, Miss Henry decided to send their video in, not thinking it would be picked up.

‘I sent it about two weeks ago,’ she said. ‘I got a phone call a few days later from a researcher for the show. She said they had just seen the video and the whole office loved it. They said they would ring me on the Saturday.’

On the Saturday, the girls gathered at Miss Henry’s house where they received a phone call from Miss Cotton live on air. She asked them questions about the dance, such as how long it had taken to create and learn the dance moves. She