Adam wanted eye sex with 50 Cent
The show had been discussing the feeling that a performer at a concert was looking directly at one particular member of the audience.
Listener Adam had never really been a gig person.
Then he went to see 50 Cent.
Adam had one aim.
He wanted to lock eyes with him.
Scott and Chris described the concept as eye sex with the famous.
From the stage, Scott knew performers really could see individual faces in the crowd.
The question was how long a glance needed to last before the fan could reasonably claim the celebrity had deliberately returned it.
Adam thought he had achieved the goal.
50 Cent had spent parts of the show standing and scanning the audience.
Adam became convinced one of those looks settled directly on him for long enough to count.
He had gone to his first major gig with a specific mission.
Radio 1 allowed him to declare it complete.
Supermarkets declared war with sausages
Christmas food was already arriving in shops.
The most competitive product appeared to be the pig in blanket.
Aldi had announced a foot-long version.
That sounded unbeatable.
Then Asda responded with its own foot-long product but concentrated on making it thicker.
Scott and Chris began discussing the battle in increasingly inappropriate terms about length and girth.
They wanted Radio 1 to go further.
Chris’s mum knew a butcher called Bridget.
The show called her to ask whether she could produce something which would beat the supermarkets completely.
The proposed target eventually became a three-foot pig in blanket.
What had begun as seasonal supermarket news was turning into meat engineering.
Scott’s yellow drink looked suspicious
Scott was carrying a bottle containing a bright-yellow vitamin drink.
Chris thought strangers might assume he was carrying urine.
Scott said nobody was looking at him and thinking that.
The show asked listeners and people around them to judge the bottle.
The colour was unfortunate enough that the question did not disappear quickly.
Scott’s attempts at health-conscious hydration had somehow become another public humiliation exercise.
Emma finally started Christmas
Then Emma the Christmas lady got through again.
She had already called the programme more than once demanding that Christmas begin immediately.
This time her workplace had joined in.
People around her were wearing festive clothes and she insisted mince pies were already available.
Chris tried to resist.
Scott weakened.
Emma wanted Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
Scott played it.
In September.
He knew there would be complaints.
He also knew the moment the opening bells began that Radio 1 had crossed a line listeners cared about far more deeply than he expected.
The reaction would dominate the following morning.
Jack Whitehall was booked for the next birthday game
Scott also teased a celebrity edition of Where Do You Think They Were?
Jack Whitehall had agreed to hear his father Michael explain the circumstances of his conception.
That edition aired on 27 September, but its transcript is not present in the supplied 2018 ZIP and is therefore not reconstructed in this archive.
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