Bamboleo reaches Wikipedia
Scott discovered that Bamboleo Wednesday had acquired its own mention on Wikipedia. He regarded that as official recognition, although he remained annoyed when other presenters danced to the Gipsy Kings without crediting the programme.
Listeners joined unusually early from vans, classrooms, universities, tractors and Japan. Chris celebrated Watford reaching the top of the table, while everybody else used the middle of the week as sufficient reason for a dance.
The voice of Instagram
The Instagram game returned with an unseen announcer describing photographs from a celebrity’s account. Because listeners could not see the images, every detail became a clue.
Scott and Chris worked through topless dancers, meetings with Nick Jonas, television appearances, hotel photographs, football managers and nuns. Their guesses ranged from Michelle Obama and Taylor Swift to Cristiano Ronaldo and Alan Hansen before one account was identified as Michael Ball’s.
The voice of Instagram sounded remarkably like Jimmy Bullard, prompting numerous accusations that Tuesday’s guest had secretly returned. Recordings of both voices were compared, but they belonged to different people.
Testing the handshake research
Monday’s Real or No Real had revealed that people often sniffed their fingers unconsciously after shaking hands. Scott and Chris decided to test the claim around the Radio 1 and 1Xtra office.
Chris approached colleagues, shook their hands, made awkward small talk and then visibly sniffed his own fingers. Scott followed with a phone camera, waiting to see whether the other person copied him.
They had planned the handshake but none of the surrounding conversation. Chris resorted to observations such as “nice view”, then delivered an enormous sniff. Some subjects reacted with immediate disgust. A team member appearing with antibacterial gel made the encounter look even more insulting.
Nobody produced useful scientific proof because the experiment itself changed everybody’s behaviour. It did, however, generate a collection of exceptionally uncomfortable videos for Radio 1’s social accounts.
Real or No Real
Alice Levine considered whether Skepta had posted pictures of people with monobrows, whether Miss Piggy and Yoda shared a performer and whether Emma Stone had persuaded her parents to support an acting career with a PowerPoint presentation.
The last two were real. Emma’s slides included arguments for moving to Los Angeles and used Madonna’s “Hollywood” as a soundtrack, offering a more carefully structured experiment than anything Scott and Chris had attempted in the office.
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