Amy’s grandmother had rejected her on Instagram
Producer Amy had encountered a very modern family problem.
Her grandmother had created a private Instagram account with only a handful of followers.
Amy sent a follow request.
It was rejected.
Even worse, another family member had been accepted.
Scott had only recently helped his own mum get onto Instagram, so the team began discussing the strange etiquette created when older relatives joined social media and immediately gained the power to approve or deny access to their lives.
A private account with four followers had somehow created genuine family politics.
Glastonbury stories became Top Trumps
After the festival, listeners had stories.
The programme turned them into Glastonbury Top Trumps.
One person would offer a celebrity encounter or backstage moment and somebody else would try to beat it.
Stories included ending up backstage with Louis Tomlinson and unexpectedly finding yourself around the toilets with Sam Fender.
The fun came from the hierarchy people instinctively created.
Was meeting a bigger celebrity automatically better?
Did a stranger location make the story more valuable?
Was a brief encounter at the toilets more memorable than a conventional backstage photograph?
Scott and Chris treated every contribution as though it had an official score printed on the back of a card.
The Who Game remembered the Ice Bucket Challenge
The Who Game returned to one of the biggest online crazes of the previous decade.
For a period in 2014, the Ice Bucket Challenge had seemed unavoidable.
Celebrities and ordinary people tipped buckets of freezing water over themselves, nominated friends and raised huge sums for motor neurone disease and ALS charities.
Then, as happens with internet crazes, it largely disappeared from everyday conversation.
Hearing it mentioned again instantly transported the programme back to a very specific period of social media.
The quiz went back to school assembly
The day’s quiz used songs and hymns familiar from school assemblies.
It meant an afternoon which began with Instagram family rejection ended by recovering musical memories people had not consciously thought about since sitting cross-legged on a school hall floor.
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