Chris might finally have access to his computer
A week after returning to Radio 1, Chris’s BBC login saga was still developing.
The machine was finally preparing his desktop and there was hope he might actually be able to see months of accumulated email.
Listeners had begun following the story as though it were a serial drama.
Baby Stark was smiling — for one reason or another
Chris was tired after a difficult night with his newborn son.
He had experienced a lovely moment when the baby looked at him and smiled.
Unfortunately, the smile was immediately followed by a rather large nappy event.
Scott suggested the expression might not have been an emotional father-and-son connection at all, but simply the look of relief babies sometimes produce just before doing a poo.
Chris preferred his own interpretation.
Students reviewed the hotel called Mum and Dad’s house
With students returning to university after months at home, the show asked them to write TripAdvisor-style reviews of their parents’ houses.
Nathan praised free food but thought the downstairs toilet needed attention.
Another student gave good marks for meals, a stocked fridge and washing that came back cleaned and ironed, but deducted points for lack of privacy.
Then Dani delivered a full review of parents Pam and Rob’s Cornish bungalow.
The food was included.
Room service could sometimes be obtained with enough nagging.
The house was so clean that Pam had been spotted vacuuming cracks in the path outside.
Spiders could be removed at any hour simply by shouting loudly enough.
The location even offered easy access to Cornwall’s famous illuminated supermarket tunnel.
The only negatives were some ugly sofas and rules about touching the curtains.
Overall: mostly a five-star experience.
The owners demanded a right of reply
Parents soon started responding.
One complained that the supposed hotel guest never cleaned the toilet or moved plates and glasses out of communal areas.
Scott realised the feature could quickly become less like TripAdvisor and more like a tenancy dispute.
Don’t Look It Up remembered forgotten Live Lounges
The quiz used one-letter answers before returning to Live Lounges that time had forgotten.
Example had somehow completed seven Live Lounges.
The Fray and other acts resurfaced through old covers neither presenter had thought about in years.
The Who Game was finally back
After months away, the Monday Who Game returned.
Listeners and presenters simply nominated people, products and pieces of culture from the past which now generated the involuntary response:
Whooo!
For Scott and Chris, the fact they could revive one of the show’s normal weekly rituals felt like another tiny sign of Radio 1 edging back towards something familiar.
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