Radio 1 was broadcasting from Manchester
Scott and Chris were in Manchester as the student tour continued.
They had university visits in Manchester and Liverpool and were spending enough time travelling together for the month to resemble the early years of the show.
Scott had already become nervous around an unfamiliar BBC security guard because his temporary pass did not work in the way he expected.
Chris thought Scott was overcompensating by being excessively friendly.
Scott decided the simpler solution was not to go outside again.
Nicole returned for flying lessons
Nicole’s first-ever flight was getting closer.
She and boyfriend Liam were going to Amsterdam on 28 September.
Scott and Chris wanted to prepare her.
Some of the advice was legitimate.
Wear something comfortable.
Listen to cabin crew.
Expect the strange sensations during take-off.
Do not panic if your ears pop.
Then they began adding traditions which existed only in Radio 1’s imagination.
Nicole was encouraged to dress smartly because flying was supposedly still a formal occasion.
She was told to clap when the plane landed.
And when cabin crew checked her boarding pass, she was advised to give them a crisp military salute.
Nicole accepted far more of this than Scott and Chris expected.
The pair became increasingly delighted and guilty at the same time.
They knew somebody would eventually have to tell her which advice was real.
For the moment, Nicole was still preparing to salute her way onto a commercial flight.
Could they recreate the whole aircraft experience?
Scott wanted cabin crew and pilots to contact the show so they could recreate a flight in advance.
They imagined giving Nicole a full safety demonstration, explaining the seatbelt signs and teaching her the mysterious language pilots used over the public-address system.
The feature had stopped being a simple listener call.
Radio 1 was now treating one woman’s first flight like a major national expedition.
Parents were setting people up on dates
The programme also heard from listeners whose parents had taken an active role in their dating life.
For some, a mum or dad had identified somebody they thought would be perfect and tried to arrange the introduction.
Scott liked the generational mismatch.
Parents could be extremely confident about compatibility based on the smallest information.
Two people could both be single and roughly the same age and therefore, in a parent’s mind, obviously belong together.
The children were not always equally convinced.
Bamboleo Wednesday continued on tour
Even while broadcasting away from London, Bamboleo Wednesday survived.
Listeners chose old show clips to drop into the instrumental break.
Radio 1’s September student tour had temporarily changed where Scott and Chris worked.
It had not changed the features they insisted on carrying around the country.
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