Chris found a way onto the roof
The Platinum Jubilee celebrations were under way and Chris wanted the best possible view of the flypast over central London.
There was one problem.
He was not initially being allowed onto the roof of Broadcasting House.
The solution was to present himself as Radio 1’s royal correspondent.
It worked.
Scott crossed live to the roof, where Chris delivered the sort of commentary only somebody with almost no specialist aviation knowledge could provide.
There were planes approaching.
Then there were more planes.
Some disappeared briefly behind a tall building before becoming planes again.
Chris kept reporting with enormous seriousness as the aircraft passed overhead, while Scott enjoyed how little additional information his correspondent could offer.
Chris was planning a barbecue that required an alarm clock
Away from the royal celebrations, Chris’s attention was turning to the bank-holiday barbecue.
His approach was not a few burgers thrown over charcoal for 20 minutes.
He wanted to cook a brisket for around 17 hours.
The method was low and slow, allowing cheaper cuts of meat to cook for a long time with rubs and seasoning until they became tender.
That meant getting up at four or five in the morning if the food was supposed to be ready by the evening.
Scott was amazed that a barbecue could require the sort of wake-up time normally associated with an airport transfer, but admitted he wanted to learn enough from Chris to produce an impressive barbecue of his own one day.
Chris’s slogan was simple: low and slow, let’s go.
Listeners who took barbecuing equally seriously immediately got in touch with their own plans, proving Chris had found his people.
Otley briefly became part of the celebration
The programme also called listener Lydia in Otley.
That led Scott and Chris into one of those conversations where geography became unexpectedly complicated, including the discovery that the famous Otley Run was much more closely associated with Leeds than the name suggested.
Lydia was outside feeding ponies carrots while Radio 1 was broadcasting from central London surrounded by royal pageantry.
It was a suitably British contrast for the first afternoon of the Jubilee bank holiday.
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