Innuendo Bingo gets latex protection
Joe Sugg’s enthusiastic soaking the previous week had forced a technical rethink. Radio 1’s microphones needed better protection from Innuendo Bingo, so Chris arrived with a supply of latex gloves and stretched one over a mic. It worked, but the dangling glove fingers made the result look so disturbing that listeners complained about having seen it during lunch.
Dev, down from Early Breakfast, had his own practical problem. He needed to catch a train after the show and did not want to travel with trousers that looked as if he had wet himself, so he proposed simply taking them off. A Pack-a-Mac was arranged over his legs to preserve some modesty for the studio camera.
The clips included BBC local radio, Dragons’ Den, wildlife television and Barry Cryer, while Chris and Dev did exactly what the new glove-covered microphone had been designed for. Dev’s plan at least meant the soaking did not ruin his journey home.
Lisa and Steve get a proper theme tune
The listener relationship experiment had reached day four and was attracting far more attention than Scott expected. Even his friends in the pub were asking how Lisa and Steve were getting on, while listeners were arranging lectures and lunch breaks around the daily update.
Scott decided a feature of this importance needed music. Borrowing the emotional sweep of “When You Believe”, he recorded a theme that asked what would become of Lisa and Steve and suggested that, although they were mates, they might yet be “mating”. Both participants were slightly horrified, but the tune instantly became part of the story.
Lisa then reported on the first date Steve had organised entirely for the two of them. They were increasingly comfortable spending time without a group of friends around them, although there had still been no kiss. Lisa admitted she had been waiting for Steve to make a move; Steve said he was being a gentleman.
Their next night would be organised by Lisa, with drinks planned around the complication of England playing football. They were still unwilling to predict what would happen after day seven, but both agreed the experiment was going well.
Scott discovers The Fox
Listeners had started sending Scott a bizarre Norwegian video because they correctly recognised it as exactly the sort of thing he would become obsessed with. It was Ylvis’s “The Fox”, built around a catalogue of familiar animal noises before asking the apparently unanswerable question: what does the fox say?
Scott was hooked immediately. The absurd chorus reminded the studio slightly of Crazy Frog, but that was not a criticism. The video was already exploding online and Scott suspected the track would become huge if it received a proper UK release.
Greg James becomes the super-sub
Alan Dedicoat was meant to arrive for Real or No Real but was off ill, so Greg James stepped in at short notice. Scott enjoyed the idea of Greg as Radio 1’s “super-sub”, particularly because the round had originally been built with Charlie Sloth in mind.
The game wandered through Ciara, Fatman Scoop and deliberately implausible reality-TV formats. Greg coped with the last-minute booking better than Scott’s scoring did, and the show closed with the promise of another Lisa and Steve update the next day.
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