Is Mary discussing baking or bloodlines?
Scott created Cake or Ancestor after noticing that Mary Berry brought similar emotion to The Great British Bake Off and Who Do You Think You Are?. Chris heard a series of reactions and had to decide whether Mary was discussing food or a revelation about her family.
Photographs of an ancestor on a donkey, a link to Florence Nightingale, beautifully presented bread and a relative who became a corset maker were placed alongside invented alternatives involving cakes. The music made every answer sound important, while Mary’s phrases could often describe an intricate bake and a courageous Victorian life equally well.
Scott regarded it as an entertaining game, although probably a one-off. The more enduring story arrived when Chris’s friend Fernando entered the studio.
Fernando is banned from an imaginary Strictly
Fernando had watched Strictly Come Dancing with his girlfriend, her friends and their partners. He remarked that his charm would make him a natural contestant; his girlfriend replied that she would never allow him to take part because he would probably get together with a professional dancer.
Her friends agreed. Fernando became annoyed that he had been prohibited from joining a programme that had never invited him, because of an affair that had never occurred, with a dancer he had never met. He argued that he might not even be paired with somebody he found attractive, creating another problem for himself.
Scott asked for other arguments about events that had not happened. Listeners described partners becoming angry over dreams, fictional lottery wins and hypothetical holidays, proving that Fernando’s dispute was unusually specific but not unique.
The yoghurt alligator
Alice Levine played Real or No Real. One claim said gargling thick yoghurt sounded almost identical to an alligator’s roar.
Alice and Chris were sent outside in turn so neither could hear the other. Both attempted the gargle while music played through the waiting contestant’s headphones. The results were wet and unpleasant but close enough to keep the fact in contention. Alice won with 40 points, Chris scored 30, and the studio was left with two half-used yoghurts and a question that had received far more practical testing than it deserved.
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