Kate treated cuffing season like a project
The previous day’s cuffing-season conversation produced a listener who had taken the concept considerably more seriously than anybody else.
Kate from Devon had wanted a boyfriend for winter.
She therefore went on 38 dates.
The dates were often deliberately short.
She would finish work, swipe through apps, arrange a drink and be home again within a couple of hours if there was no real connection.
At her busiest, Kate managed seven dates in seven days.
Living in Devon made the logistics harder than dating in a huge city because the pool of possible matches was more spread out.
She sometimes expanded the dating-app radius to around 50 miles.
The effort eventually worked.
The man she met on date 38 became her boyfriend.
Scott was fascinated enough by the number.
Then Kate revealed she had written notes about every date.
That transformed one caller into a feature capable of running for weeks.
The 38-date diary was coming to Radio 1
Kate had effectively created a private review archive of everybody she met.
Scott immediately wanted all of it.
The plan became to bring her back and work through the dates in order, chart-style, revealing the memorable details which had made each man a yes, a no or simply a strange evening.
Kate’s story also helped explain cuffing season better than any definition.
She had consciously decided autumn was coming, wanted somebody to share winter with and had treated dating like a concentrated recruitment process.
Scott and Chris had found their Cuffing Queen.
TED Talks were apparently entering Chris’s marriage
The single-life conversation had followed Chris home.
His wife had been watching a TED Talk about relationships.
Chris became suspicious that language from the video was beginning to appear in their own conversations.
One phrase suggested he was good at transmitting information but not always receiving it.
Chris immediately thought that sounded like TED Talk terminology rather than something she would naturally say.
He began researching relationship talks to understand what ideas might be coming next.
The irony was not lost on Scott.
Only a day earlier, Chris had struggled to explain why relationships were good.
Now he was effectively doing homework on how to improve one.
Don’t Tell The Bride had become essential viewing again
Scott was also determined to convince listeners that *Don’t Tell The Bride* had become brilliant again.
He played clips from episodes where the bride described her dream of an elegant, traditional wedding while the groom prepared something wildly different.
Scott thought the casting had become particularly good at finding couples almost guaranteed to disagree over every important decision.
The feature was part television recommendation and part warning.
If your partner ever began talking enthusiastically about applying for the show, perhaps the relationship itself was about to become content.
Bamboleo Wednesday included an Adele laugh
Bamboleo Wednesday returned with listeners requesting old show clips to drop into the famous instrumental gap.
One selection featured Adele laughing at the *Strictly Come Dancing* theme.
It was exactly the kind of tiny audio moment the feature existed to preserve.
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