Everybody was suddenly inspecting roadworks
David Morgan’s Ask Me Anything appearance had created a mission.
The Guinness World Record cone collector wanted one particular five-sided cone.
Scott and Chris had asked the audience to help.
By Tuesday, the inbox was full.
The problem was that many listeners were photographing the wrong thing.
Some cones had five-sided bases while the upright cone itself still had the ordinary four-sided form.
David wanted the genuinely unusual version.
The programme became surprisingly specific about traffic-cone geometry.
Scott admitted he now looked at every roadwork differently.
Hot points became a proper series
The show continued hearing the small behaviours listeners found unexpectedly attractive in their partners.
Driving remained one of the strongest themes.
Several people liked watching somebody reverse confidently or manoeuvre a car through a difficult space.
Poppy from Cornwall had another example.
Her boyfriend rescued a pigeon from a chimney.
The combination of competence and caring for an animal immediately became a hot point.
Scott and Chris agreed that heroic animal rescue could add considerably more attraction than ordinary looks.
Pigeon or seagull?
The bird conversation created another problem.
The programme had recently discussed whether a bird which had deposited something unpleasant on somebody was actually a pigeon or a seagull.
Listeners supplied increasingly technical information about when different birds could poo in flight.
Scott realised the show had started casually blaming pigeons for incidents which might really have involved gulls.
The phrase tarred with the gull brush summed up the confusion.
Apologies to pigeons followed.
Radio 1 at Work produced a live job conversation
The station’s workplace campaign continued with visits to offices listening during the day.
One workplace involved a mortgage-broker business and a man called Gordon.
The conversation somehow moved into Scott’s ability to cope with a proper job and turned into something resembling a live job interview.
Scott was amused that a Radio 1 workplace visit could become an assessment of whether he was employable outside broadcasting.
The idea would return later in April when businesses offered him actual work experience.
Funny Business kept finding names
Tuesday also brought another round of Funny Business.
Real companies once again answered completely professionally while Scott and Chris attempted to make ordinary enquiries without laughing.
The show now had enough listener submissions for the feature to feel almost impossible to exhaust.
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