The weather changed the wardrobe
Radio 1 had reached Wales for Biggest Weekend.
Scott and Chris were broadcasting from Cardiff before travelling on to Swansea, and the weather forecast had started causing problems.
Plans for carefully chosen festival outfits were being abandoned in favour of whatever would survive rain and mud.
Chris had initially planned shorts.
Scott went shopping on his behalf and bought an emergency black hoodie plus trainers which Chris would not mind getting dirty.
Maya Jama had also experienced travel problems getting to the show after a ticket code failed at the station, creating the kind of last-minute panic which felt appropriate for the day before a huge outside event.
Listeners were sending in their own questions about wellies, coats, queue times and whether there was enough time for a cooked breakfast before heading to the site.
The Welsh button solved everything
Scott then unveiled a piece of fictional BBC technology.
A button on the desk could apparently turn anybody instantly Welsh.
He would say something in English, press the button and a Welsh version of the phrase would emerge.
“Croeso i Abertawe”, meaning “Welcome to Swansea”, became one of the phrases.
Chris tried it too.
Welsh listeners phoned in and supplied sentences for the machine to translate, including invitations for a drink and the wonderfully practical “I like going to the post office”.
The joke relied on pre-recorded Welsh audio rather than Scott suddenly becoming fluent, but he treated the button as a genuine broadcasting breakthrough.
One listener wanted a French version for meeting her boyfriend’s family.
Scott immediately began wondering whether the invention had commercial potential.
A train mystery involved somebody’s toes
The journey to Wales also produced a genuinely baffling story from a friend of the programme.
She had been sitting on a train when she felt what she assumed was a dog licking her toes from underneath the seat.
That was strange enough.
Then the couple sitting behind her got off.
They did not have a dog.
The implication became much less pleasant.
Scott and Chris struggled to invent any explanation which made the situation normal.
Biggest Weekend was finally here
For several days the programme had been discussing the festival as a future problem.
Now it was effectively beginning.
The team had clothes, travel plans and weather contingencies.
Radio 1 presenters were converging on South Wales.
Scott could deploy his new “Welsh microphone” whenever required.
The only remaining challenge was actually getting through the weekend.
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