Cameron’s friends found the ghost for Radio 1
The previous day, Cameron had explained how he met a woman during his daily journey from Balham to Bank.
He had approached her after repeated eye contact, got her number and suggested a drink.
They messaged.
Then she stopped replying and apparently disappeared from the train.
Ghostbusters had failed to get a proper answer on Monday.
On Tuesday, the woman agreed to speak.
Her friends had recognised the story immediately.
Even though Radio 1 had not named her, they knew about the man from the train and messaged to tell her that the programme appeared to be discussing her.
She listened back after work and realised they were right.
She did not consider it a full ghosting
The woman thought the scale of the drama was slightly strange because, from her perspective, she and Cameron had only spoken a few times.
They had not been in a relationship.
They had not even reached a proper run of dates.
That was why she did not feel especially guilty about ending the contact.
Scott pointed out that the problem was less about whether they were officially dating and more about Cameron having no idea what had changed.
Her explanation was simple: the situation had begun to feel “a bit too much” for her, so she decided to stop.
Asked why she had not sent a message explaining that, she said she did not feel she had to justify herself and that sometimes it was easier simply to go away.
She had deliberately changed carriages
Then came the detail which explained Cameron’s missing commuter.
She was still taking the same journey.
She had switched carriages after stopping the messages because she did not want the awkwardness of seeing him.
Cameron had changed parts of his own commute for much the same reason.
The pair had effectively been avoiding each other on the same train.
She had actually seen him that morning.
According to her, Cameron pretended not to notice her.
The WhatsApp photograph also turned out not to be evidence of a boyfriend. The man pictured was a friend from a holiday, and the profile image had been there for a long time.
She confirmed she was single.
Most importantly for Cameron, she said he could have his normal carriage back.
Scott asked whether she would ever speak to another stranger on the London Underground.
She thought not.
Scott and Chris fell out over Beyoncé
The other disagreement of the day concerned Beyoncé’s Coachella performances.
Chris argued that an artist playing both weekends of a festival could mix the show up more.
Scott strongly disagreed.
He thought criticising Beyoncé for repeating a highly complicated, carefully rehearsed production was ridiculous. The scale of the performance meant it could not simply be rebuilt on a whim between weekends.
Chris was not saying the show was bad. He wanted variation.
Scott heard that as an accusation of laziness.
The discussion became unusually heated for the pair before they agreed, reluctantly, to disagree.
Scott immediately announced that he hated that phrase too.
Anton Powers was the wrong football expert
Listener Sasha was going to watch Liverpool in the Champions League with her boyfriend and wanted enough football knowledge to fit in.
Chris supplied some basic Liverpool information.
Scott decided he could do better by calling a famous Liverpool-supporting contact.
He rang DJ Anton Powers.
Anton answered and immediately destroyed the plan.
He was an Everton fan.
Scott had confidently introduced a supporter of Liverpool’s city rival as the celebrity who would explain how to support Liverpool.
Anton also disputed the “celebrity” part of the introduction.
Scott apologised and accepted that this particular attempt at expert booking had gone spectacularly wrong.
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