The final Breakfast show began with meditation
Scott and Chris were finishing their week covering for Greg James.
Even the presenters’ own routines had changed.
Chris had tried meditation for the first time after deciding his brain needed a break from his phone and the endless flow of information.
Scott struggled to imagine Chris sitting quietly following an instructor.
Chris said it had actually helped him sleep.
The conversation would have sounded unusual from him a few months earlier.
By April it made complete sense.
Young Farmers represented Better Days
The Better Days quiz continued with Alex, a Young Farmer from Lincolnshire.
Alex was still working because farming had not stopped.
His roller had broken, temporarily giving him a morning away from one of the more repetitive jobs.
Scott initially misunderstood what “rolling” a field meant and briefly imagined something much grander.
Alex explained that it was simply part of preparing and maintaining the land.
The quiz then returned everybody to the opening day of the 2018 World Cup.
Football, Little Mix and old entertainment questions provided another few minutes away from 2020.
Dating apps had added the awkward button
Lockdown had forced dating apps to adapt.
Instead of simply texting until people arranged to meet, apps were encouraging phone and video calls.
Scott found one new prompt particularly intimidating.
Are you ready for a video call with this person?
Two choices.
Not yet.
Ready.
The app apparently kept the answer private until both people were willing.
Scott had a team member’s phone and considered pressing the button live.
The feature had the feel of *Love Is Blind* performed through a mobile app.
Chat normally.
Then suddenly reveal the face.
Even celebrities had bad internet
The show broadened the discussion to video-call problems everybody was experiencing.
Frozen faces.
Audio delay.
People speaking over one another.
Dating was no longer exempt from the same technical problems affecting work meetings and family quizzes.
Scott found that strangely reassuring.
If a first video date froze at an awkward moment, famous people’s interviews were doing exactly the same thing.
Owain Wyn Evans won the internet with drums
Welsh weather presenter Owain Wyn Evans had posted himself drumming along to the BBC News theme.
Scott and Chris could not stop watching it.
Owain would finish a weather forecast, move rapidly towards the drum kit and perform along with the familiar music.
The clip spread widely enough for the BBC News Channel to use him live.
Scott said it was the sort of small, joyful internet moment people needed.
Tap End entered the nightclub
The archive story returned to Chris’s first experiences of going to clubs.
The details belonged to the era of teenage nights out where everybody believed entering the club represented the beginning of proper adult life.
Scott enjoyed hearing Chris reconstruct how enormous the occasion had felt.
The modern Chris could DJ festivals and attend major events.
The teenage version was simply excited to get through the door.
Eddie Hearn finally became a DJ
Then boxing promoter Eddie Hearn took over the music.
Eddie told Scott he had always wanted to be a DJ.
Before becoming one of boxing’s biggest promoters, he had even tried promoting nights.
That career had not been as successful as promoting fights.
Scott asked how Eddie would explain his real job to somebody unfamiliar with boxing.
Eddie reduced it to getting two people to dislike one another, spending weeks building the hype and eventually persuading everyone to watch them fight.
For his Radio 1 set, the fighting stopped.
Eddie delivered the filthy R&B mix he had wanted all along.
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