Cardiff finally got the Freshers night it missed
Scott and Chris had DJed at Cardiff Students’ Union the previous evening.
For many second-year students, it functioned as a delayed Freshers.
COVID had taken away the normal experience the previous year.
Now they were finally getting the packed student-union night they had expected.
Listener Lily called to say she and her housemates had loved it.
Her highlight was Chris playing Gasoline.
Chris had become convinced the track possessed one of the greatest intros in club music.
He challenged Scott to put the opening in front of almost any song and prove it would improve the record.
The experiment with Lil Nas X did not go quite as perfectly as Chris imagined.
He still stood by the theory.
Minute of Me turned towards climate anxiety
Radio 1 continued inviting contributions for its environment-focused Minute of Me.
Young people were being asked about climate anxiety, anger, hopes and the actions they wanted to see.
Scott and Chris stressed that the feature was about giving listeners the platform rather than telling them what to think.
The appeal sat inside the normal programme rather than being separated from it.
That was deliberate.
Serious concerns and ordinary entertainment belonged on the same station.
Hook-up Higher or Lower returned
The distance game had been too successful to use only once.
Scott restated his original record.
London to Huddersfield:
around 190 miles.
Then producer Amy entered the competition.
Around five years earlier, she had travelled from London to Berlin to meet a man she had first spoken to online.
Her figure:
roughly 688 miles.
She was relieved he looked like the person she expected.
The relationship did not last.
The mileage remained impressive.
Emma went even further
Next came Emma.
Scott and Chris assumed 688 miles would probably be difficult to beat.
Emma had travelled from London to Bodrum, Turkey.
Roughly:
1,238 miles.
The story began on an earlier holiday.
Emma booked a Turkish massage after being told it was best to arrange one early.
The manager said he would personally make sure she received an excellent treatment.
He did.
The two stayed in contact by email.
A couple of months later, Emma returned to Bodrum on her own specifically to see him.
That second journey was the true hook-up mileage.
Scott could barely believe the game had jumped from Huddersfield to the edge of Asia in two editions.
Chloe set the opposite record
The next caller, Chloe, only had to beat or fall below Emma’s 1,238 miles.
Scott and Chris chose lower.
Very safely.
Chloe’s distance was:
200 metres.
She and the man went to the same college, the same bar and then the same house.
Five years later, he was still her boyfriend and the only person she had been with.
Scott realised the smallest journey in the feature had produced one of the longest-lasting relationships.
Hook-up mileage clearly predicted absolutely nothing.
Oktoberfest turned pop songs into oompah music
September closed with an Oktoberfest-themed Don’t Look It Up.
Popular records were performed as oompah arrangements.
Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off appeared.
Lady Gaga’s Poker Face followed.
A brass version of Britney Spears’ Toxic, recorded for BBC Radio 5 Live years earlier, completed the round.
Scott and Chris argued over points until the final seconds.
It was a suitably chaotic end to September:
student clubs, climate radio, international hook-ups and German brass bands all sharing the same programme.
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