Watford had produced Chris’s dream result
Chris arrived still buzzing after Watford beat Liverpool 3–0.
Scott had prepared an emotional football montage for him, complete with commentary from the extraordinary win.
Chris admitted he had spent the aftermath messaging Watford players and people around the club.
One message to goalkeeper Ben Foster included how proud Chris was of the team.
Another contained the phrase “I love you.”
Scott enjoyed hearing Chris behave like a fan first and broadcaster second.
The win mattered because Watford were fighting relegation while Liverpool were running away with the league.
Chris knew one result did not solve the season.
That did not stop him calling it one of the best days he could remember as a supporter.
David Morris accepted the Sandstorm challenge
The show then returned to David Morris, the expert whistler who had previously impressed Scott and Chris with the kind of precision normally associated with musical instruments.
Radio 1 had set him an intentionally difficult homework task:
Darude – “Sandstorm.”
David had not really known the track before.
He learned it anyway.
The speed made it a serious technical challenge, but David produced a remarkably convincing whistle version.
Scott called it a whistle rave.
Chris tried joining in and immediately demonstrated why David was the professional.
The next proposed challenge was Eminem’s “Godzilla”.
The show had clearly decided that if David could whistle Sandstorm, ordinary songs were now too easy.
Bangers moved and listeners revolted
A caller named Danny asked the show to move Bangers from around 2.40pm to 3.40pm because he normally missed it while working.
Scott and Chris agreed to try it for one day.
The reaction was immediate.
Other listeners complained that Bangers formed part of their daily routine.
Some people used it almost like a clock.
Changing the time made one listener think they had accidentally left work early.
Scott realised a feature which amounted to choosing between two songs had become surprisingly important to people’s afternoons.
The experiment still went ahead.
Dylan kept campaigning for Eurovision
Listener Dylan, who worked around cruise ships and travelled through Europe, continued the show’s campaign for UK Eurovision entry James Newman.
Britain could not vote for itself.
Scott therefore wanted listeners abroad to spread the word.
Dylan had already been shouting the message in European destinations.
Scott encouraged him to keep going.
The campaign had moved from one radio feature into a small network of unofficial Eurovision ambassadors.
Ask Me Anything prepared for the end of the world
The day’s Ask Me Anything conversation moved into survival, food preservation and the kind of practical knowledge somebody might need if normal systems stopped working.
The guest talked about gathering and preserving wild foods such as garlic, nettles and spinach.
That made Chris ask the obvious question.
If Armageddon arrived, would this be a useful person to know?
Scott said he would be fine because somebody would still need to broadcast.
He claimed he might even be the last voice people heard.
Chris dismissed that immediately.
Scott described himself as the cockroach of radio: somehow still on air after everybody else had gone.
The title had arrived.
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