Builders officially rejected the shed
The tradespeople discussion continued after Wednesday.
More professionals told Chris that using the area behind a customer’s shed as a toilet was absolutely not standard behaviour.
Chris had believed the workers were showing respect by avoiding his house in dirty clothes.
Almost everybody else heard the story differently.
One tradesman said there were far more sensible options, including proper portable facilities where necessary.
Chris’s confidence that his experience had been normal had completely disappeared.
Radio 1 visited more workplaces
The Radio 1 at Work campaign continued with Ariel Free travelling between businesses and handing out Radio 1-approved workplace plaques.
One visit reached a natural dog-food company.
The conversation immediately went wrong when the company name was misheard in a much ruder way.
Scott also admitted he had tried dog food for radio years earlier and thought it was significantly better than cat food.
The workplace owner explained that the business used meat from the family’s existing food operation which would otherwise have been disposed of.
“What’s in Ariel’s hand?” became a game
A simple workplace link then accidentally created a new game.
Ariel would be handed an object.
Scott and Chris had to guess what was in her hand from the clues and reactions.
The production was minimal.
The title was effectively the entire concept.
Listeners nevertheless loved it.
Scott thought the feature had somehow peaked before it had properly begun.
Chris delivered a Stark Guide to the Isle of Man
The weekly Stark Guide turned to the Isle of Man.
Chris used the now-familiar mixture of real history, local references, confident narration and jokes.
The programme wanted listeners who lived there to tell them what was accurate and what needed correcting.
By this point, the Stark Guide format had become less about genuine travel advice and more about Chris making an ordinary weekend destination sound like the subject of a major BBC documentary.
Jamie met dad Alan
Where Do You Think They Were? introduced Jamie from Inverness and his dad Alan.
Jamie said this was not the sort of subject he normally discussed with his father.
Alan was very willing to change that.
The story began with Alan visiting his future in-laws for the first time.
The parents imposed separate sleeping arrangements.
Alan would sleep in one room.
His girlfriend would sleep elsewhere.
The evening initially went well.
They ate, made polite conversation and later visited the local pub.
The separate rooms did not survive the night
Back at the house, the couple decided the official sleeping plan was too restrictive.
They moved together into the spare room.
Unfortunately, that room was directly beside the future in-laws.
Things became noisy enough for somebody next door to bang on the wall.
Scott assumed this was the signal to stop.
Alan described it more as a signal to change what they were doing.
Jamie was horrified.
Breakfast the following morning was predictably awkward.
Worse still, Jamie believed he had later slept in the same room himself.
After months of unusual conception locations, the feature had finally found something surprisingly traditional.
A bed.
It was simply the bed in the future grandparents’ house while the grandparents were next door.
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