The first messages got even less romantic
After Mark and Emma’s formal Facebook exchange, listeners produced their own early relationship evidence.
Sarah said Joe had gone one step further than saving their messages digitally: he had written down every text she sent him in a book during the early days of their relationship.
Eleanor and Johnny’s opening exchanges were much more practical.
They had met while studying, and their first messages were essentially requests for help with homework. One began with a question about the maths work, then months later another arrived asking whether the English homework had been done.
Scott liked the fact that a relationship which later became serious could begin with something as unromantic as checking question four.
Another listener remembered meeting her eventual boyfriend at university while she was dressed as a cowboy and he was wearing an outfit she considered terrible. Their earliest Snapchat messages had effectively disappeared because the old phones containing them no longer worked, but the couple had later returned to fancy dress together in lederhosen.
Jordan North needed Google at the BBC
Jordan North had joined the BBC gym, but one visit became awkward when he forgot his BBC pass.
Staff did not simply accept “I work on Radio 1” as proof.
Jordan ended up having to get them to Google him so they could confirm that he was, in fact, a BBC presenter.
Scott and Chris were amused enough by that, but what really caught their attention was Jordan’s pronunciation of “jacuzzi”.
He said it in a way which sounded closer to “ja-coo-zi”, and the clip was replayed until the pronunciation became impossible to hear normally.
What do pop stars actually do at record labels?
Becky Hill also managed to send the show into a minor investigation after tweeting from a record-company toilet while Scott and Chris were playing “False Alarm”.
The fact she was physically at the label made them wonder what singers did during an ordinary office visit.
They imagined meetings, scheduling conversations and other remarkably boring activities which did not fit the glamorous picture people often had of pop stars.
Megan could not hear Isaac Gracie again
Then Megan rang with a very specific request: stop playing Isaac Gracie.
It was not because she objected to him as an artist.
The song brought back a university disaster.
While working in the library on her dissertation, Megan thought her headphones were connected and started playing the track.
They were not.
The song played out loud through the library while everybody around her heard it.
By the time she realised what had happened, the embarrassment had attached itself permanently to the music.
Years later, hearing Scott play it was enough to bring the whole scene back.
The programme had begun with first messages people wanted to preserve and ended with a song one listener would happily never hear again.
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