Rich had already become service-station royalty
Motorway-services enthusiast Rich was back.
His first appearance had solved the missing plaque on the Scott Mills Bridge at Fleet Services.
Rich had phoned the site manager.
The plaque went back up.
His specialist motorway-services website had then experienced a surge of Radio 1 traffic.
Scott and Chris realised they had accidentally created a minor celebrity within one of Britain’s most niche hobbies.
The next game was Where Is Rich?
Rich was somewhere at a motorway service station.
Scott and Chris had to work out which one from clues.
The first clue suggested it was roughly an hour’s drive from Bristol.
Another said one side had undergone much more work than the other.
The site was on the M5.
It had familiar service-station brands including McDonald’s, Costa, Chozen Noodle and a Days Inn.
Listeners began guessing.
Gloucester.
Sedgemoor.
Strensham.
The answer was Strensham Northbound
Rich eventually revealed he was at Strensham Northbound, on the M5 in Worcestershire.
The service area lies between junctions 7 and 8.
He explained that the southbound side had received substantial redevelopment over the years while the northbound side retained more of its older character.
Scott and Chris treated the reveal with the kind of tension normally reserved for a game show.
Rich was simply standing at a motorway services.
By this point, that was enough.
The plaque was definitely back
Rich also confirmed the Scott Mills Bridge plaque had been restored at Fleet.
The transcript again mishears the name as “Danny Howard Bridge”, but the continuing story is unmistakably Scott’s bridge.
One phone call from Rich had achieved what the show itself had failed to do.
Scott’s place in motorway-service history remained secure.
Bake Off arrived in the quiz
Don’t Look It Up used The Great British Bake Off, which had returned to television.
The quiz moved from road infrastructure to cakes with very little warning.
That was a fairly normal afternoon for the programme.
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