Brian’s moment was still dominating the show
The previous week’s *Naked Attraction* episode had stayed with Scott and Chris.
Brian, who had never seen a naked woman in real life before going on the programme, had reacted with such open amazement that Scott had immediately identified with him.
Scott had never seen female genitalia in real life either.
On Friday he had half-jokingly agreed that Radio 1 should recreate Brian’s experience for him.
By Monday, the team had remembered this promise.
Scott was still willing.
Finding a volunteer was rather harder than saying yes
The plan sounded simple when it was just a joke.
Find somebody willing to reveal herself to Scott in a safe, consensual version of the television moment.
Let Scott react.
Move on.
In practice, nobody at Radio 1 appeared especially keen to volunteer.
The team considered putting out a wider request.
Scott even drafted the sort of all-staff email that would have explained that he wanted to see female genitalia for the first time, anonymously if necessary.
The proposed message became funnier the more formally it was phrased.
Then sensible people intervened.
The email was not sent.
The feature collapsed under its own logistics
Scott and Chris both recognised that trying to recreate *Naked Attraction* inside a workplace raised rather more questions than Brian’s original television appearance had.
What had seemed like an obvious Monday feature became a succession of people saying no.
Scott remained oddly game for the experience.
The BBC, less surprisingly, did not turn into a pop-up *Naked Attraction* studio.
Brian’s challenge therefore remained uncompleted.
For now.
The Who Game returned
With the anatomy experiment going nowhere, the programme returned to something much easier to organise.
The Who Game.
Listeners fired off people, products and forgotten habits from the recent past while Scott and Chris responded with the ritual “Whooo!”
The show also invited listeners with particularly strong collections of nostalgic references to email in and potentially become future contestants.
Don’t Look It Up revisited old television cookbooks and Live Lounges
The quiz opened with companion cookbooks.
Scott and Chris had to identify television programmes from themed recipes and book titles.
*Downton Abbey* appeared through food such as champagne jelly.
Other books tied themselves to programmes in increasingly unnecessary ways.
The later Live Lounge round returned to performances everybody had apparently forgotten.
Fall Out Boy were heard covering Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ *Uptown Funk*.
Once again, the Radio 1 archive produced events which had seemed completely normal when they happened and almost fictional only a few years later.
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