The most niche day in the show’s Christmas calendar had arrived
It was Magnus Carlson Day.
Exactly one week and one day before Christmas, Radio 1 once again played *Wrap Myself in Paper*.
Scott explained the tradition for anybody hearing it for the first time.
Magnus Carlson is a Swedish singer who had tried several times to represent his country at Eurovision and had performed with Alcazar.
In the song, he realises he has failed to buy a present.
His solution is to wrap himself in paper.
Scott considered the record extremely naff.
That was precisely why it had become brilliant.
Listeners had built a genuine tradition around a very odd song
Messages flooded in from people who had been waiting all year.
Some were hearing it for the first time and immediately understood why regular listeners loved it.
One listener said a dreadful week had improved purely because the annual Magnus moment had arrived.
Another drove around the village with the song playing loudly.
Somebody on a building site reported that the lads were unexpectedly enjoying it.
Scott compared the song with Christmas Day itself.
It took ages to arrive.
Then it was over almost immediately.
Brother or Lover went to the Isle of Man
Hannah joined from the Isle of Man, where coronavirus restrictions were dramatically lighter because the island was effectively COVID-free.
She introduced Joe.
Were they siblings or a couple?
The pair were spending Christmas together.
They lived together with one other person.
Both had gone to universities in Leeds.
Hannah had bought Joe clothes for his birthday.
Joe had never bought Hannah underwear.
Every answer seemed capable of fitting either option.
The team split.
Chris’s underwear-shopping history briefly took over the game
The final question about underwear sent Chris into a story about buying lingerie for his wife.
He had left the purchase until Christmas Eve.
The available shops in Maidenhead did not quite match the glamorous image he had in his head.
An older sales assistant had to guide him through the options.
Chris had wanted something exciting.
He feared he was being steered towards support bras.
The tangent did little to solve Brother or Lover.
Hannah and Joe were lovers
Eventually the team committed.
The reveal:
lovers.
They had been together for almost four years.
They were living with Hannah’s mum, which explained one of the clues that had confused everybody.
Scott and Chris wished them a happy Christmas and claimed another correct — or at least partially correct — result for one of the year’s newest games.
The Who-Vent Calendar reopened the Loose Women choir
Door 17 returned to a recent but already gloriously strange television moment:
the *Loose Women* choir performing *This Is Me*.
The show treated it as exactly the right kind of Who-Vent entry.
It was not ancient.
It had simply occupied an intense little space in popular culture and then disappeared.
Danny Howard remixed the Christmas number ones
The quiz was hosted by Danny Howard and leaned fully into Radio 1’s dance world.
One round asked whether names belonged to cocktails or wrestling moves.
Then former Christmas number ones were transformed into dance remixes.
Clean Bandit and Anne-Marie’s *Rockabye* appeared.
Sam Bailey’s *Skyscraper* returned from 2013.
Most spectacularly, Rage Against the Machine’s *Killing in the Name* became an unlikely festive dance remix.
Scott won the quiz six points to four.
For somebody who had spent much of the year being beaten in Don’t Look It Up, Magnus Carlson Day brought a rare victory.
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