Prince Charles had once gone skiing in disguise
Scott and Chris had found an old photograph of Prince Charles skiing decades earlier.
The future king appeared to be wearing a deliberate disguise.
Fake-looking moustache.
Glasses.
A red hat.
A prominent false-looking nose.
Scott thought the effect was less royal protection and more comedy character.
At one point he compared the look with Postman Pat.
The photo raised the obvious question of whether a globally recognisable royal could ever genuinely disguise himself with accessories available from a joke shop.
Zoe and James arrived for Brother or Lover
The day’s relationship game featured Zoe, a dog groomer from Melksham, and James, who ran a campervan-conversion business.
James had made Zoe an elaborate breakfast including muffins, eggs, bacon, avocado and tomatoes.
They had been away together in a campervan.
They looked after one another’s dogs.
All of this could easily sound romantic.
Oddly, the way they spoke to each other pushed much of the panel towards siblings.
The chemistry sounded almost too relaxed.
Most of the team chose brother
Three judges chose brother.
Two chose lover.
Scott asked for the reveal.
Zoe and James were:
lovers.
They had genuinely been away together in the campervan and shared responsibility for the dogs.
The comfortable, matter-of-fact way they described the relationship had simply made them sound related.
Brother or Lover had started 2022 by proving tone can be more misleading than facts.
Then Scott questioned the entire existence of dinosaurs
Don’t Look It Up moved onto dinosaurs.
That should have been a straightforward quiz category.
Instead, Scott revealed something much stranger.
He struggled to believe dinosaurs had actually existed in the form everyone accepts.
His problem was not simply the age of the fossils.
It was the confidence.
How do we know what they looked like?
How do we know how they sounded?
How can museums reconstruct an entire enormous animal from bones?
Why are new species still being discovered?
Scott demanded the one form of evidence nobody could possibly provide:
video.
Radio 1 created the anti-Rexer
Chris and the production team were delighted.
Scott was not quite denying fossils existed.
He was questioning the certainty surrounding the reconstructions.
That was enough.
Listeners began calling him an:
anti-Rexer.
A T-Rex truther.
Scott then expanded his scepticism to triceratops and other species.
The quiz tried to educate him.
Around 700 species of extinct dinosaur are known.
T-Rex lived roughly 68 million years ago.
Evidence suggests T-Rex could even cannibalise its own species.
Scott kept returning to the same point:
how do you know?
The show had accidentally created its first conspiracy theory of the year.
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