An ex wanted his Morocco photos back
The show returned to the growing collection of lockdown messages from old partners.
Georgia had been contacted by an ex she had not been with for years. Rather than simply saying hello, he wanted photographs from a holiday they had taken together in Morocco.
Georgia found the request so strange that she sent him a photograph of himself on the trip rather than a romantic picture of the two of them.
That reopened the show’s debate about old relationship photographs. Scott and Chris could understand pictures surviving in cloud storage or old social-media albums, but actively seeking them out years later felt like something else.
Another listener had an even more complicated situation: a colleague admitted he had developed feelings for her and had broken up with his girlfriend after deciding he was in love with her. The problem was that she was already with somebody else — and they were both due back in the office together.
Year Six history was harder than expected
Don’t Look It Up moved into Year Six history.
Questions included who the first Olympic Games were held in honour of, how many wives Henry VIII had beheaded and which city was considered Scotland’s first capital.
Scott and Chris discovered that material designed for schoolchildren becomes significantly harder when there is a clock running and no phone available.
A later round also included cringe celebrity cameos and one of the show’s favourite pieces of Rylan trivia.
Jamie arrived; Harry did not
The headline guest mix was supposed to be Harry and Jamie Redknapp back-to-back.
Jamie was ready. Harry was not.
The show waited while Harry attempted to join the Zoom call, with everyone assuming Sandra Redknapp would eventually have to intervene. Jamie calmly began without him, opening with Nelly’s *Ride Wit Me*.
Eventually Harry appeared, after exactly the sort of domestic technology struggle the show had hoped for. Sandra could be heard helping in the background while Harry tried to understand what he had pressed.
Once connected, though, he immediately took over the room.
The Redknapp playlist was magnificently unpredictable
Harry began with Luther Vandross’ *Never Too Much*. He talked about loving Luther, Marvin Gaye and Frank Sinatra, making it obvious the set was not going to stay within normal Radio 1 boundaries.
Jamie followed with contemporary R&B and dance choices, including Khalid and Disclosure, and remembered the changing role of music in football dressing rooms. He also talked about nights out in Liverpool during his playing career, including visits to Cream with teammates.
Harry then completely changed direction by selecting DaBaby’s *Rockstar*, delighting Scott because nobody had expected it.
Jamie chose Beyoncé and Sean Paul’s *Baby Boy*, while Harry continued moving between generations of music and stories from television and football.
Harry also addressed reports linking him with the Nigeria national team. Sandra, he said, had been enthusiastic about the idea, although one of the practical questions seemed to be how they would move everything — and the dogs — to Nigeria.
The final choice was pure Harry: Frank Sinatra’s *That’s Life*.
Scott loved the result because it sounded less like a tightly formatted Radio 1 mix and more like the point at a wedding when every generation starts making requests. In a few songs they had gone from current rap and Beyoncé to Luther Vandross and Sinatra, and somehow it worked.
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