Shane Williams joined the lesson
Scott’s national-anthem challenge reached the point where Radio 1 brought in professional help.
Shane Williams, one of Wales’s most celebrated rugby players and the country’s leading try scorer, joined the programme.
Scott explained that he was attending Wales v Ireland in Cardiff and wanted to support Wales properly.
The difficulty was the anthem.
Shane listened to the progress and offered practical advice rather than demanding perfect Welsh.
Sing confidently.
Listen to the people around you.
If you lose your place, recover at the chorus.
Shane agreed that the crowd inside the Principality Stadium would provide enough volume to carry almost anybody.
The Royal Welsh Band were listening too
The challenge had spread well beyond the show.
Members of the Royal Welsh Band indicated they knew about Scott’s attempt and would effectively be the backing band at the stadium.
BBC Radio 5 Live and Mark Chapman were also interested in Scott’s new rugby allegiance.
Scott realised what had started as a small joke now had enough attention that people might genuinely be listening to whether he knew the words on Saturday.
Scott performed the anthem live
Near the end of the feature, Shane introduced Scott for a full attempt.
The automatic transcript cannot reliably render sung Welsh, so the archive does not pretend to transcribe the performance.
What mattered was that Scott got through it.
Shane was encouraging.
Scott was relieved.
The real test would still be the stadium.
Kelly’s parents had a very large footstool
Where Do You Think They Were? introduced Kelly and her dad Tim.
The likely conception date was Tim’s birthday.
Kelly had been born a little more than four weeks early, allowing the family to work backwards and identify the evening with unusual confidence.
The romantic setting was not a hotel, holiday or car.
It was the living room.
The couple first tried the sofa and floor.
The floor was too hard.
Then attention moved to a large footstool.
The footstool became the star
Tim described the footstool as big enough for the couple to use without immediately falling off.
Scott compared it with the famous floating door in *Titanic*, with Tim taking the Leonardo DiCaprio role.
Kelly heard increasingly precise information about how her parents had used ordinary living-room furniture.
The footstool itself no longer existed.
Asked what happened to it, Tim explained that it had broken.
Scott and Chris decided they did not need to investigate whether those two facts were connected.
Kelly’s birthday was approaching on St Patrick’s Day.
She now had a family story considerably more memorable than a normal birthday message.
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