Becky Hill’s directness was the whole point
Scott and Chris welcomed Becky Hill and immediately told her what they liked about her.
She said what she thought.
If somebody annoyed her, she did not wrap the point in management language.
Scott replayed one festival clip where Becky stopped mid-performance to tell somebody who had climbed onto a burger van to get down.
The problem was delaying the show for everybody else.
Becky delivered the instruction with exactly the force the situation required.
Radio 1 offered Becky a permanent rant slot
Scott had an idea.
Any time Becky had something she needed to get off her chest:
call the show.
No elaborate booking process.
No need to turn the anger into a polished interview answer.
Come on air.
Rant.
Leave feeling better.
Becky liked the offer.
Her marketing team, she joked, would probably like it even more.
Conveniently, she already had something ready.
My Heart Goes had driven her mad
Becky’s rant began with My Heart Goes.
She had spent weeks promoting it relentlessly.
She had recently had major chart success and believed the follow-up had all the ingredients.
A huge hook.
A proper dance record.
Even brackets in the title.
She had been talking about it everywhere.
The frustration poured out in one long burst.
Scott and Chris mostly sat back and let it happen.
The feature had essentially created itself.
Which animal is farting?
Don’t Look It Up then dropped any remaining dignity.
Producer Amy played recordings of animal flatulence.
Scott and Chris had to identify the species.
One enormous noise sounded like machinery.
The answer was a hippo.
Another much smaller noise belonged to a different animal entirely.
Scott repeatedly questioned whether BBC Radio 1 had genuinely become a programme where two grown men analysed wildlife farts for points.
Nobody stopped the game.
Joel Corry’s Music Video or Adult Video returned
The archive also revisited Music Video or Adult Video with Joel Corry.
Comments from beneath videos were read aloud.
Joel had to decide whether somebody had left them under one of his music videos or under adult content.
The wording was designed to work either way.
One comment said the production looked incredibly fun to film.
Another discussed buffering.
Another admired how quickly somebody had grown.
Scott and Chris still thought the game was much better than it had any right to be.
The entire episode operated on the same principle:
if you are going to say something ridiculous, commit fully.
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