A listener needed Radio 1 to explain WhatsApp
The station’s new WhatsApp system was barely three days old and already creating technical support calls.
Listener Liz, 21, admitted she could not work out how to send a voice note.
Chris talked her through it live.
Open the chat.
Find the microphone beside the typing box.
Hold it down.
Speak.
Send.
To demonstrate, Scott recorded a message telling Chris he was rubbish.
Liz then successfully joined the voice-note era.
Scott had become obsessed with spotting Princess Anne
Scott also admitted he kept sending Chris videos of Princess Anne at Paddington Station.
His real obsession was not simply royalty.
It was the security operation.
Whenever he saw police and protection officers, Scott began trying to predict which royal or political figure might appear.
This time he had been ready with the phone when Princess Anne left a train and entered a waiting car.
The challenge was choosing music for the social-media clip.
Lorde’s Royals seemed obvious.
Scott wanted something long enough for the full video and ended up using a Mission: Impossible-style soundtrack instead.
Adam had experienced one of television’s purest embarrassment moments
The clip Scott could not stop watching came from Married at First Sight UK.
Groom Adam was waiting at the altar to meet the woman he was about to marry for the first time.
Footsteps approached.
Adam turned around.
He saw an attractive woman.
His face lit up.
“Wow.”
He greeted her warmly.
Then his dad supplied the devastating correction:
“It’s the bridesmaid, Adam.”
The woman calmly walked past and took her seat.
Scott had watched the moment with literal tears of second-hand embarrassment.
Adam thought he had got away with it
The show got Adam on the phone.
He explained he had been standing at the altar for around an hour and a half.
Nobody told him the bridesmaid would walk down first.
He heard footsteps, turned around and genuinely believed the woman approaching was the person he had been matched with.
His reaction was instinctive.
Only once his dad spoke did the mistake become clear.
Adam thought the moment had gone largely unnoticed during filming.
Then the clip was used to advertise the series and spread all over social media.
He had very definitely not got away with it.
Tears of embarrassment became the new listener appeal
Scott asked listeners whether they experienced the same physical response.
Not ordinary embarrassment.
Not laughing.
Actual eyes watering because somebody else’s situation was too awkward to watch.
The Adam clip had triggered exactly that in Scott.
The programme started collecting other examples.
The harvest season received its own moment
The show also heard from young farmers working long days through harvest.
Listeners sent updates from tractors and fields.
Scott and Chris treated the messages like a live roll call for an audience often listening while working alone.
The revived Harvest Samba had arrived at exactly the right time.
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