Becky Hill reviewed herself
Becky Hill joined after her Live Lounge performance.
Scott and Chris again asked the artist to assess her own session.
Becky was characteristically more critical than the presenters.
What sounded polished to the audience still contained moments she had been thinking about while performing.
The conversation became more personal than Scott expected, and he felt Becky opened up as the interview developed.
The show had turned self-review into a recurring Live Lounge companion piece.
Phil was still climbing
Sport Relief challenger Phil continued the extraordinary attempt to climb the equivalent height of Everest using staircases.
The Radio 1 stairwell became part of the route.
The effort required hours of repetitive climbing every day.
Scott and Chris could hear the tiredness arriving.
Their response was naturally musical.
If Phil needed motivation, Radio 1 would create it.
Becky supplied the soundtrack
Becky joined the encouragement effort.
The presenters suggested songs such as “Eye of the Tiger” and anything containing steps, climbing or perseverance.
Scott leaned heavily on Miley Cyrus’s “The Climb” as the obvious anthem.
The title came directly from the lyric:
There was always going to be another staircase.
Phil’s challenge had converted a familiar pop lyric into a literal instruction.
Scott discovered subtitles made everything better
Scott also announced a new television obsession.
He increasingly preferred films and programmes with subtitles.
The focus required made him pay more attention.
He could not drift off, check his phone and assume he would still understand the plot.
Scott had moved from seeing subtitles as extra work to treating them almost as a quality mark.
Chris was less convinced that reading television automatically made it better.
Scott started recommending subtitled material anyway.
Chris had been misquoted
A published article contained a quote attributed to Chris which he believed did not accurately reflect what he had said.
Scott enjoyed watching him discover how strange a sentence could look when removed from the original conversation.
Chris insisted the wording did not represent him.
The show examined whether the quote was genuinely wrong or simply sounded worse once placed in print.
The experience gave Chris a little more sympathy for celebrities complaining about interviews.
Funny Business still found room
Tuesday also meant Funny Business.
Despite Sport Relief and Live Lounge guests, the programme still called genuine companies with names designed to break the presenters.
The businesses stayed professional.
Scott and Chris continued failing the same test.
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