Gym Chris walked into a bodybuilding competition
Chris had visited a leisure centre in Maidenhead and immediately realised something unusual was happening.
The car park was packed.
Inside, almost everybody appeared extremely muscular.
Men and women were shredded.
Veins were visible.
Bodies were deeply tanned.
Even people casually holding espresso cups looked enormous.
Chris had apparently walked into some kind of bodybuilding event.
He knew almost nothing about how the competition worked.
Listeners explained that competitors reduce body fat, pose in set positions and are judged on muscularity, symmetry and presentation.
Scott immediately decided he had experience because he had once done a fitness transformation and been sprayed with a dark oily tan for photographs.
Sarah finally explained the school code
The previous day’s Who Game had reminded Chris of the secret language some girls spoke at school.
Listener Sarah knew it fluently.
The system involved inserting an avag-style sound into words.
Sarah demonstrated by saying her own name and then answering Scott and Chris’s questions entirely in the code.
They understood almost nothing.
Scott asked for her least favourite thing about Radio 1.
She answered.
They could not decode it.
He asked for her favourite current song.
Sarah transformed The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s Stay into something almost unrecognisable.
Chris had spent years wondering what people at school were saying.
National radio had finally given him an explanation.
It still did not give him comprehension.
Sophie and Rob played Brother or Lover
Sophie, 28, from Chester introduced Rob.
The team began working through the usual questions.
What had Sophie last bought him?
A sandwich.
What was his favourite sandwich?
The answers sounded domestic but not necessarily romantic.
The pair had enough familiarity to fit either category.
Scott and Chris kept trying to detect the tone of the relationship rather than relying on one decisive clue.
The reveal:
lovers.
Sophie and Rob were a couple.
Bangers went to Guernsey
The map took Bangers to Guernsey, where caller Joe worked in a bike shop.
Scott briefly risked confusing Guernsey with Jersey, which Joe did not consider acceptable.
Chris offered David Guetta and Sia’s Titanium.
Scott offered All-American Rejects’ Dirty Little Secret.
Joe chose Titanium.
Amy’s bell-ringing date became a quiz round
Producer Amy revealed her boyfriend had taken her to a church bell-ringing class.
She had tried it.
The bells were difficult.
The ropes could physically pull you upwards.
She did not sound desperate to go again.
The experience did at least produce a Don’t Look It Up round featuring pop songs played on handbells.
The quiz also used real-or-fake history, including Australia’s real 1932 Emu War and Wojtek, the real bear associated with the Polish Army.
For a programme which had begun with secret school language, the day ended unusually educationally.
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