Chris sings in a Post Office queue
Thursday brought the Posh Radio 4 Lady back for Dear Scott, including messages about the newly created Chris theme tune and the strange number of male and female people called Chris. The postbag also revived Chris’s childhood prize of 600 cans of cheesy beans, with listeners confirming that cheese and beans were fine when combined at home but considerably less appealing when sold together in a tin.
Scott and Chris then returned to their recurring attempt to start spontaneous Home and Away singalongs in public places. Having already tried a bus and a café, they selected the Post Office, reasoning that a long, quiet queue of bored customers was precisely the setting that most needed a burst of Australian soap opera music.
Chris found the location much more intimidating than the earlier attempts. He tried to look occupied by examining forms and Jiffy bags while Scott waited for the right moment, and the room became noticeably quieter as the pair began. Scott sang with confidence, Chris faced away from the queue for as long as he could, and the whole thing felt much more nerve-racking than they had predicted.
The stunt did at least produce a small victory. One woman in the queue joined in, more enthusiastically than anyone had during the first two versions of the feature. Scott treated this as proof that people did want to sing the theme tune, even if they generally preferred not to do it in the specific places he and Chris chose.
The show also kept Chris’s documentary and its chanting theme tune in circulation, while Dear Scott supplied the usual mix of listener observations and gentle ridicule. It was the sort of programme where an ordinary errand became a carefully engineered public embarrassment, and Chris was once again the person who had to stand nearest to it.
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