The show had a new job
By Monday, Radio 1 was openly talking to listeners whose ordinary routines had disappeared.
People were working from home.
Some were isolating.
Parents and children were doing exercise sessions together.
Listeners were baking, cleaning, watching more television and discovering how loudly their partners typed.
Scott and Chris wanted to give people something deliberately uncomplicated to do.
The answer was a quiz.
Don’t Look It Up
The rule was contained entirely in the title.
Don’t Look It Up.
Scott and Chris asked ordinary pub-quiz-style questions.
The listener or presenter had to answer using only what was already in their head.
No Google.
No asking a smart speaker.
No quietly checking another screen.
The simplicity mattered.
Everyone suddenly had the whole internet available while sitting at home.
The game asked people to resist it for a few minutes.
Scott treated this as a surprisingly difficult test of character.
An opera singer performed to the street
The show also heard from a performer connected with the English National Opera who had begun giving neighbours a concert from home.
With venues and normal performances disappearing, singers and musicians were finding any available stage.
A window.
A balcony.
A street.
The source includes a performance of “Nessun Dorma”, alongside a much less traditional opera-style take on Lizzo.
Scott and Chris loved the contrast.
Classical technique had been redirected towards keeping neighbours entertained.
Ask Me Anything met Terry Turbo
The mystery guest introduced himself as Terry Turbo, the world’s fastest window cleaner.
The automatic transcript renders his surname unreliably, so the archive preserves the name the programme itself emphasised: Terry Turbo.
His Guinness World Record involved cleaning three windows measuring roughly 45 by 45 inches.
His record time was:
9.14 seconds.
Scott assumed speed must mean cutting corners.
Terry insisted the windows still had to be properly cleaned.
The competition was serious enough to take place internationally.
Ten Guinness records
Terry said he had held around 10 Guinness World Records across his window-cleaning career.
The technique involved incredibly fast movements and efficient use of the squeegee.
Scott described the competitors as athletes on glass.
Terry had clearly heard every window-cleaning pun before and supplied several of his own.
Ask Me Anything had arrived at the right moment.
The outside world felt increasingly strange.
Radio 1 had found a man able to clean three windows in less time than most people took to find the spray bottle.
Superfan Steve returned from the archive
The show also revisited a classic Superfan Steve encounter, giving listeners familiar material alongside the new quiz.
That balance would define the next stage of the programme.
New lockdown-era features.
Old Scott Mills favourites.
And whatever could be made live from homes and laptops.
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