The parents wanted the room back
Scott and Chris introduced a Freshers game built around one of the crueller traditions of leaving home for university: discovering that your parents immediately want to reclaim your bedroom.
Tali had moved away only six days earlier when her parents decided the room was destined to become a guest bedroom.
The game put fresher and parent together on the phone and used questions about the student’s possessions, habits and memories to decide what could be saved before the transformation.
It turned the emotional idea of losing a childhood bedroom into a quiz where old belongings effectively had to earn their right to survive.
The first week at university did not need to define everything
Scott and Chris also reassured students who were sitting alone in unfamiliar rooms and worrying that everybody else had already formed friendship groups.
They argued that the people you meet in the first few days are not necessarily the people you will still be close to months later. Clubs, societies, courses and ordinary university life would continue introducing new people long after Freshers Week ended.
Instant Dragons’ Den produced Pocket Socket
The programme’s Instant Dragons’ Den returned, where listeners with business ideas were put straight through to Deborah Meaden.
Douglas pitched “Pocket Socket”: socks containing a pocket for small items such as keys.
Deborah was not convinced and challenged the idea quickly, but listeners immediately pointed out possible uses for runners and rugby players who needed somewhere to keep small possessions.
The problem arrived shortly afterwards when people reported that pocketed socks already existed.
Bangers ended the week with a particularly uneven battle: one side offered Nelly and Kelly Rowland’s “Dilemma”, while the other went much heavier with My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade”.
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