Scott arrives straight from the airport
Scott entered Radio 1 with his bag still in his hand and very little time to recover from Ibiza. His flight had arrived early, which briefly made the journey look unusually efficient, before delays on the ground consumed the advantage and left him racing into the studio.
He had been DJing to about 400 people on a boat rather than taking part in the main Radio 1 broadcasts. The party had been extremely rough on the water but successful, and Scott returned with the strange mixture of exhaustion and adrenaline that follows a very short working trip abroad.
Chris had spent the weekend in Edinburgh, so neither of them had heard the other’s stories before going on air. The programme began as a live comparison of two very different weekends: Scott had experienced clubs, boats and airport stress, while Chris had been surrounded by Fringe performers and people promoting shows on every available patch of pavement.
Edinburgh becomes an official plan
The reason for Chris’s visit became clear. Scott and Chris would broadcast from the Edinburgh Festival the following Monday, then appear in Alice Levine’s late-night comedy show with Matthew Lewis.
Lewis had previously created one of the most-watched Innuendo Bingo videos, and Scott wanted to use his Harry Potter fame in something that could not be broadcast during a normal lunchtime programme. The exact performance remained secret, but the repeated warnings that it would be live, late and rude made Chris increasingly suspicious.
The Who Game returns
Listener Joe returned for another edition of The Who Game. He was still working in television sales after previously losing a job cooking fish, and remained surprised that his recurring radio appearances had not yet transformed his employment prospects.
Each player brought a person or thing from the past and challenged the others to recognise it. The feature’s appeal remained the collision between nostalgia and Joe’s growing status as a minor show character: the more often he appeared, the more likely he was to become a valid answer in his own game.
Greg James stayed for Real or No Real, while the show also tested an exhausted Nick Grimshaw’s emotional breaking point after Ibiza. Grimmy was so tired that very little pressure was required. Scott had only just made it back himself, but by the end of the afternoon Radio 1 was already turning its attention from one festival trip to the next.
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