Scott and Chris were back after Eurovision week
The programme returned after a gap with Eurovision dominating the conversation.
Scott had been working around the contest and admitted the experience had also exposed his lockdown wardrobe.
During a One Show rehearsal somebody told him his tatty jogging bottoms were not suitable for the live BBC One appearance.
He had assumed the lower half barely mattered.
Production disagreed.
Scott came back to Radio 1 wearing smart black jeans for the first time in more than a year.
It felt like another tiny reopening milestone.
James Newman handled nul points with extraordinary good humour
The UK’s Eurovision entrant James Newman had scored zero points.
Scott and Chris did not pretend that was a good result.
What impressed them was the reaction in the arena.
Other artists and members of the audience gave James a huge show of support.
James himself handled it with humour and joined Radio 1 rather than hiding from the result.
The team decided there was one easy way to improve his score.
Put him in Don’t Look It Up.
James finally received some points
The quiz used forgotten Live Lounges.
James had an obvious advantage because he had written songs for major artists and his brother John Newman appeared in the archive.
One clip used Love Me Again.
Scott and Chris struggled.
James recognised his own brother.
The show happily awarded him points.
After Eurovision, even a Radio 1 quiz score felt symbolic.
Scott repeatedly announced that James Newman was finally getting points.
Scott gave the Premier League its final chart rundown
The football season had ended.
Listeners had been asking Scott to repeat the feature where he reads the league table like the Official Chart.
Chris prepared facts and chart-style lines.
Scott delivered the countdown with full tension.
Clubs rose and fell.
Football jokes became chart links.
Manchester City received the number-one treatment.
Chris loved the format because it forced Scott to combine two areas of his professional life which normally had almost nothing to do with one another.
“Medieval jobs” offended a surprising number of people
A conversation about soldering and traditional crafts led Chris to describe certain professions as medieval jobs.
Jewellers.
Carpenters.
Glass blowers.
Shepherds.
Blacksmiths.
Listeners currently doing those jobs objected.
One caller, Meg in Suffolk, was a self-taught jeweller using solder and torches every day.
Chris insisted he meant the work had historical roots, not that the profession was obsolete.
That did not stop messages from tradespeople demanding respect.
The feature would expand properly the following day.
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