Granny Tinder had somewhere more important to be
Lynette returned for her weekly Tinder judging but immediately warned the team she could not stay for the full feature.
She had a hearing test booked.
Scott and Chris repeatedly wished her good luck as though she were heading into major surgery.
Lynette insisted her hearing was basically fine.
The appointment still created an unusual deadline.
Profiles which would normally receive several minutes of forensic grandmother analysis now had to be dealt with quickly.
The swiping became a speed round
Scott and Chris hurried through the men.
Lynette did not relax her standards simply because she was on the clock.
Weak bios still received immediate suspicion.
Jobs, hobbies and dating-app innuendo were still picked apart.
If anything, the looming appointment made the verdicts even more decisive.
There was no time to debate somebody who already sounded unsuitable.
Granny Tinder had effectively become a rapid-fire format.
Maya Jama entered Big Weekend Real or No Real
Radio 1’s Big Weekend of Live Music was approaching and the quiz used stories from previous events.
One rumour involved Maya Jama supposedly becoming so bored waiting for a taxi back to the city centre that she tried to hijack a golf buggy and drive herself back to the hotel.
Scott and Chris had to decide whether the story was genuine or invented.
Big Weekend had generated enough ridiculous backstage moments over the years that even the more extreme claims sounded plausible.
That was exactly why Real or No Real worked.
Breakfast-show DJ quizzes were also causing tension
All week, Radio 1 presenters had been appearing on Greg James’s breakfast-show quiz ahead of seeing one another at Big Weekend.
Chris had already taken his turn.
He found the early start difficult and discovered the rules were harsher than expected: no swearing and, crucially, no passing.
A question about Disclosure temporarily vanished from his mind despite being information he obviously knew.
Scott was due to play later and suddenly understood he might have spent too much time mocking everybody else’s scores.
Bangers landed in Crieff
The Bangers map sent the programme to Crieff in Scotland.
Scott and Chris continued the ritual of treating a randomly selected caller’s location as a major broadcasting destination.
After months when travel had been restricted, even hearing from another town and imagining where somebody was listening carried a little more weight than it once had.
Lynette, meanwhile, had successfully escaped in time for her hearing test.
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