Scott and Chris had met The Rock and Kevin Hart
The presenters arrived unusually late to their own rhythm because the morning had contained a major recording.
They had been filming with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart.
Scott repeatedly called Dwayne “Mr Rock”, partly because some of the actor’s team called him DJ and Scott did not feel familiar enough to do the same.
The finished Christmas feature would air the following Thursday.
For now, Scott and Chris could only tease that it was festive and different from the Playground Insults they had already recorded with the pair.
Freya’s Daddy Pig message reached Chris
Chris also finally heard the message from Freya Ridings and her dad.
Richard Ridings performed as Daddy Pig while praising Freya’s Tune of the Week and Scott and Chris.
The show had made a deliberately strange celebrity request.
The family actually delivered it.
Chris regarded that as the ideal outcome.
Rob returned from Oxford
Former Fresher of the Week Rob checked in after his first term at Oxford.
He had begun university convinced everybody around him was more intelligent and that he did not really belong.
Months later, he had settled in.
The programme remembered the bacon incident, the late-night food and the ordinary freshers behaviour which had shown Rob that Oxford students could be brilliant academically and still completely chaotic at home.
The first-term update suggested the impostor feeling had softened.
Brad volunteered for Where Do You Think They Were?
The day’s conception participant was Brad.
His mum Shona joined.
Brad had described her as fairly prim and proper and initially assumed she would never agree to tell the story.
Shona immediately corrected that impression.
She had lived a life.
Radio 1 was about to hear it.
Northern Australia set the scene
The story went back around 29 years to northern Australia, around Cairns.
Brad’s father was a builder working on new buildings connected with an Aboriginal community near mangroves and rainforest.
The location was beautiful.
It was also full of snakes, creepy crawlies and wildlife.
Shona admitted she did not enjoy snakes at all.
That did not prevent what happened next.
A final-night party became the opportunity
The construction work had finished and there was a celebratory gathering.
Shona described it as a party with music, beer, wine and a strong communal atmosphere.
She and Brad’s father decided to leave the celebrations temporarily.
Their accommodation was not a normal hotel room.
It was a small shack with only part of a roof, few proper walls and almost no barrier between the couple and the surrounding environment.
Scott said he would struggle to relax with snakes and animals nearby.
Shona suggested a little tension did not necessarily hurt.
Brad regretted putting his mother on national radio.
Brad became the interval
The couple had their private moment in the half-open shack.
Then they went back to the party, which continued until dawn.
Scott summed up Brad’s role in the evening perfectly.
He had been the interval.
Shona laughed and said she was proud of her son.
Brad sounded considerably less enthusiastic about the entire reconstruction.
The Who Game closed the week
Thursday also brought another Who Game.
Retro references included the Microsoft Word paperclip, fountain pens at school, wife swapping, thumb wars and old T-shirts which once seemed unavoidable.
The Whoovent Calendar had effectively doubled the amount of nostalgia already in the show.
December’s first week ended with Brad as the jungle baby and four days of Radio 1 opening doors into its own past.
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