Florence had apparently developed healing powers
Scott imagined what had been happening at the front during Florence + the Machine’s Biggest Weekend performance.
In his version, Florence was not simply singing.
She was healing the crowd.
Listeners were invited to report anything which had mysteriously improved since watching her set.
Sam provided the most extreme claim.
He said he had been watching on BBC iPlayer with a broken leg when the cast simply fell off.
He was now apparently walking, skipping and jumping around work.
The story was clearly being played for comedy, but Scott treated it as further evidence of “the healing power of Florence”.
Other listeners offered much smaller examples, including headaches disappearing.
The festival had ended, but Radio 1 was still finding new mythology to build around it.
Social media irritation continued
The previous day’s discussion about people who were great friends in real life and terrible follows online continued.
Lucy described one of her best friends sending essentially the same Snapchat twice every working day.
It was a photograph of the car park on arrival and another on departure, often accompanied by a “daily grind” style caption.
Lucy liked her friend very much.
She disliked the car park so much that she eventually deleted Snapchat.
That was exactly the type of story Scott had been looking for: no relationship-ending offence, just years of digital repetition slowly destroying patience.
What was the point of a twin town?
Swansea had reminded Scott about the concept of town twinning.
Its French twin was Pau.
Listeners began sending examples from around Britain, ranging from nearby European towns to much more glamorous international partners.
Scott wanted to know what practical benefits the relationship created.
Did people get special travel arrangements?
Discounts?
Exchanges?
Beer festivals?
Some listeners had genuinely visited their twin towns through school exchanges or community events.
Others seemed to know the name on the road sign and nothing else.
Then Scott decided the Radio 1 show should have a twin of its own.
A pub in Hengoed volunteered.
Listeners suggested radio programmes elsewhere in the world.
Then Sam called from Australia with a better idea.
The town of Yass.
Scott loved it immediately.
Because “Yass” was already one of the show’s recurring enthusiastic expressions, the name felt almost designed for a twinning relationship.
Sam was asked to investigate the mayor and begin the diplomatic process.
Scott imagined signs entering the town announcing that Yass was twinned with the Scott Mills show.
The BBC needed tennis grunts
The programme had also been asked to record audio for BBC Wimbledon coverage.
The transcript misheard the request as being for “Brian Belo”, but the direction made the real subject obvious.
Scott and Chris were asked for tennis noises.
They recorded grunts as though serving, increasingly intense effort sounds, crowd reactions to a brilliant rally and the umpire phrase “new balls, please”.
Rather than stay behind after the show to complete the session, they did it live on air.
Scott attempted increasingly dramatic tennis efforts while Chris and the production team criticised the delivery.
The result sounded less like professional Wimbledon imaging and more like two men discovering how strange tennis sounds become when removed from an actual match.
May ended with the show trying to establish international relations with Yass while supplying the BBC with synthetic tennis noises.
It was an appropriately Scott-and-Chris conclusion to a month which had begun with Victorian-sounding Facebook courtship.
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