Chris caught up on Pam Boleyn
Chris had missed part of Tuesday’s programme and returned to discover the Scott Mills Travel Agency had already recommended Edinburgh and an Anne Boleyn escape room to Katie from Chicago.
He was particularly interested in Scott’s invented Boleyn relatives.
Pam Boleyn had survived overnight.
Scott admitted historical accuracy was not the strongest part of the travel service.
Enthusiasm was.
Sophie still needed to answer Facebook
The team also returned to Sophie’s midnight message.
An old university acquaintance had said she popped up on his timeline, confessed he had once had a soft spot for her and asked whether she was single and wanted a drink.
Sophie was already in a relationship.
Listeners debated whether she owed him a reply at all.
Some thought a friendly message mentioning the boyfriend would resolve everything without embarrassment.
Others felt the after-midnight timing showed enough intent that silence was the clearest answer.
Scott and Chris enjoyed how quickly a polite message could become a national advice panel once Radio 1 was involved.
CV Clinic found the jobs nobody had anymore
Then the show revived its CV Clinic with a new angle.
Instead of improving a listener’s actual employment history, Scott and Chris looked for extinct or historical job titles which sounded so extraordinary they might make an interviewer stop and ask questions.
The first was a tosher.
In Victorian London, toshers searched sewers for lost or discarded valuables.
Scott loved the word before he even understood the job.
Knocker-uppers were human alarm clocks
Another vanished profession was the knocker-upper.
Before alarm clocks became universal, workers could pay somebody to wake them.
The knocker-upper walked the streets early in the morning and tapped on bedroom windows, sometimes using long poles to reach upper floors.
Scott and Chris thought the role sounded almost useful enough to bring back.
A modern knocker-upper could potentially replace five phone alarms and the snooze button.
Cowbangers and bummery joined the application
The list continued with cowbanger, an old agricultural job title connected with dairy work.
Then came bummery, described in the source as a middleman role around wholesale and retail fish markets.
The show’s real aim was not historical education.
It wanted a listener to add one of these unexplained titles to a CV simply to force an employer to ask:
“What exactly is that?”
The chosen phrase became something close to knocker-upper of the work people.
Scott and Chris were delighted by the possibility of an interview beginning with a job which had not existed for generations.
Sam Fender reviewed his Live Lounge
Sam Fender also appeared around his Live Lounge Month performance.
The show discussed his session and returned to an earlier Radio 1 incident involving a fake Fender around a pub near Broadcasting House.
The transcript is too garbled to preserve the exact mechanics of that older incident confidently, so the archive does not manufacture them.
What is clear is that the show admitted what had happened and Sam took the callback in good humour.
Bamboleo was unusually strong
Wednesday meant Bamboleo.
Scott and Chris declared this one of the better editions for several weeks.
The difference, according to them, was genuine hunger to get the old clips into the instrumental gap.
The feature had become ridiculous enough for presenters to discuss their emotional readiness for Bamboleo as though they were preparing for sport.
That was exactly why listeners still loved it.
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