Alice’s okay feet
Student journalist Alice had searched her own name before a graduate job interview and found something much less useful than her published work. Photographs from an article she had written about living with webbed toes had been copied to WikiFeet, a site devoted to rating celebrity feet.
Alice was not a celebrity and had no IMDb page, but she now appeared alongside Emma Watson, Adele and Eva Longoria. Her feet had received two-and-a-half stars, leaving them between the site’s “bad” and “okay” categories. Scott and Chris inspected the rankings, discovered that Tyson Fury was among the most popular entries and encouraged listeners to improve Alice’s score.
The attention had already brought Alice dozens of Facebook requests from strangers. She had initially found the page alarming but now accepted her unexpected specialist fame, provided the photographs remained limited to her feet.
A song request on Radio 1
Chris found Flow Rida and Kesha’s “Right Round” on YouTube and could not understand why being inside Radio 1 did not entitle him to hear it immediately. Scott explained that the station did not simply take requests, but Chris continued until the phone lines were reopened for a listener vote.
The choice was between Scott’s scheduled play of Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” and Chris’s forgotten favourite from the closing credits of The Hangover. Listener Lewis chose “Right Round”, giving Chris what he described as one of the proudest moments of his life and laying the foundations for a daily battle over the next song.
Gregathlon begins
Greg James began his Sport Relief challenge of completing five triathlons in five cities over five days. After swimming and cycling around Belfast, he still faced a ten-mile run and admitted that the hills and wind had made the first day much harder than expected.
Scott and Chris followed his progress and heard why Greg was raising money after visiting children affected by the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan. Messages and donations from listeners helped him through the lonely stages of the course as he tried to finish in time to present his own show.
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