Sophie’s terrible holiday memory immediately topped Dev’s
Dev and Chris continued asking for holidays that had gone so badly people should hate remembering them — but which still seemed preferable to being unable to travel in 2020.
Listener Sophie had a strong contender.
At 16, she went on a school trip to the south of France which included a two-day descent of the Ardèche.
The trip itself was brilliant.
The coach journey afterwards was not.
Sophie was sitting among school friends and boys she fancied when a serious stomach ache began.
She eventually accepted that she had no choice but to use the coach toilet.
Even that presented a problem because she was wearing a complicated swimming costume.
By the time she managed to get herself into position, it was too late.
Sophie had had a full toilet accident on a school trip.
Cleaning up without anybody noticing was almost impossible
The coach toilet offered very little useful equipment.
Sophie had to wash her swimming costume in the tiny sink and somehow emerge without announcing to the entire coach what had happened.
Then people began asking what the smell was.
Sophie joined in.
She said she had never properly told the story before appearing on Radio 1.
Despite all of it, when Dev asked whether she would take that exact trip again rather than have no holiday, the answer was immediate:
yes.
Listeners who happened to be eating lunch were rather less grateful for the story.
Dev promised the rest of the programme would be free of similar incidents.
Yungblud was still buzzing from the Live Lounge
Live Lounge Month brought Yungblud into the Radio 1 theatre.
Dom sounded full of adrenaline after performing and admitted he still had not really worked out a sophisticated post-show routine.
A shower, dressing gown and a very bad romantic comedy were among the things capable of bringing him back down.
He described himself as a weeper and happily demolished any expectation that Yungblud spent the hours after a performance doing something impossibly rock-and-roll.
Then Dev and Chris made him listen to himself.
Cardigan became a running commentary on Yungblud’s brain
Yungblud had covered Taylor Swift’s *Cardigan*.
Rather than simply praise it, the show asked him to review every little part of his own performance.
He immediately noticed how breathy the opening sounded.
As the arrangement built, he described the strings, the soft vocal and the moments where he was consciously preparing himself for the larger notes still to come.
At one point he labelled a rougher vocal moment the “Capaldi growl”, invoking Lewis Capaldi’s distinctive delivery.
Listening back exposed how little his internal monologue resembled the serious performance viewers had just seen.
On the outside, he appeared completely focused.
Inside his head, he said, it was far more like chaos.
He had deliberately chosen to bring the energy down
Yungblud explained that previous Live Lounge performances had been highly energetic.
This time he wanted to do something different.
Rather than simply turning another song into a loud Yungblud performance, he chose *Cardigan* and rebuilt it around a gentler arrangement.
He had considered other songs but felt Taylor Swift’s track gave him the chance to show a different side.
Despite all the jokes while listening back, he was clearly proud of how it had gone.
Asked whether he would book himself for future Live Lounges if he controlled the schedule, Yungblud said yes — every week, for purely self-promotional reasons.
Listeners were equally enthusiastic, with messages saying the cover had unexpectedly brought back memories of old relationships.
Blow Your Own Trumpet rewarded very specific achievements
Dev also took over the show’s Tuesday trumpet.
The feature exists for victories too small to receive recognition anywhere else.
One listener had completed a 1,000-piece puzzle despite discovering that the family dog had eaten 14 pieces.
The finished image therefore required a certain amount of imagination.
Another listener had managed to put exactly £3 of diesel into the car without going a penny over.
Dev and Chris treated this with genuine admiration.
Getting a petrol pump to stop precisely on the intended amount was the sort of tiny achievement the feature was designed for.
Don’t Look It Up went thrash metal
The quiz closed with thrash-metal versions of familiar pop records.
Anne-Marie and Marshmello, Jonas Brothers’ *Sucker* and Drake’s *Hotline Bling* were transformed into considerably heavier arrangements.
Chris edged the contest.
For Dev, two days into covering Scott, the programme had already moved from a French coach toilet to Taylor Swift, petrol-pump precision and thrash metal without appearing to find any of those transitions unusual.
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