Love Island’s soundtrack was doing emotional work
Scott had noticed how strongly music could change a fairly ordinary *Love Island* scene.
Contestant Ollie had left the villa only a few days into the series.
The programme used an emotional track underneath the departure.
Scott found himself much more moved than the event itself seemed to justify.
He searched for the song afterwards and discovered the band Mipso.
That led to a broader appreciation of whoever selected the show’s music.
An artist could suddenly reach a huge television audience without necessarily knowing in advance that the track had been chosen.
Scott remembered similar moments involving Maisie Peters and Becky Hill.
The Stark Guide returned
Chris brought back his travel feature and attempted to make listeners fall in love with Weston-super-Mare again.
The format had not changed.
Gather local history, landmarks and odd facts.
Deliver everything as though it belonged in a prestige BBC documentary.
Then wait for people from the area to correct it.
Scott jokingly predicted a tourism boom once the guide aired.
Thailand and Dubai could wait.
Everybody would apparently be going to Weston.
James entered Where Do You Think They Were?
Then listener James discovered why the title contained so much bouncing.
His mum Sam told the story.
The setting was Cape Town in February during a 30th birthday fancy-dress party.
Both parents had committed to the costumes.
Fishnets.
Skirts.
Wigs.
Alcohol.
And, because children had been using it earlier in the day, a bouncy castle in the garden.
As the evening continued, the adults took over the inflatable.
The party ended with camping on the bouncy castle
Cape Town was warm enough for the couple to decide that sleeping outside on the bouncy castle sounded perfectly reasonable.
Eventually everybody else disappeared.
James’s parents were left alone.
Sam described what happened next with considerably more enthusiasm than her son wanted.
One thing led to another.
“Mummy and daddy doing bouncy bouncy,” as the show reduced it to.
Scott was delighted.
The feature had found another completely new conception location.
James said he would never look at a bouncy castle the same way again.
Sam compared sleeping on it with an enormous air bed.
Scott thought the natural rebound might even have helped establish a rhythm.
James asked them to stop.
The Who Game kept the nostalgia going
The Who Game also returned, proving the Friday source was not simply a conception special.
The archive now had a new “Who?” location too.
For James, the bouncy castle was unlikely ever to become forgotten enough to qualify.
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