Everything goes up and down
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s workout commands had survived overnight. Listeners placed “up, down” over their own music and sent recordings, while Scott continued pressing the buttons whenever a song offered the slightest opportunity.
The announced Big Weekend names included Taylor Swift, Florence and the Machine, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Years & Years, but Scott still refused to disclose the remaining line-up before Monday’s Breakfast reveal.
Rhianna meets Ryan Gosling
Rhianna Dhillon arrived after interviewing Ryan Gosling. She had taught him the phrase “bricking it” and was disappointed to confirm that he appeared normal, friendly and willing to stand up for a handshake.
She would have liked longer with Brad Pitt and had never interviewed George Clooney, an omission which her mother Wendy would happily help correct. Her immediate job, however, was another game of Innuendo Bingo with Chris.
The game has to stop
Sport supplied most of the clips. AP McCoy had his girth checked at the Grand National, Peter Alliss urged a golf ball to move softly before describing a gobbler, and a glassblower found something increasingly hard to control as it grew bigger.
The decisive clip came from the Boat Race. A commentator said she had the Oxford cox in her ear, and every replay pushed Rhianna further into uncontrollable laughter.
Scott moved on to a golfer fiddling with his 14-inch implement, but Rhianna was already hyperventilating and shaking her head. He stopped the game early for the first time.
She continued crying with laughter after leaving the studio. Chris filmed another minute and a half, while the mere sound of the Oxford clip restarted the reaction later in the office.
Facebook karma
Listener Beth had followed the previous day’s Facebook spring clean and looked at an ex who left her for another woman. The new relationship had now failed in exactly the same way.
Beth messaged him to ask how his former girlfriend was, received confirmation that she had dumped him and laughed. Scott thought the response sounded harsh but understood why she saw it as karma after the original heartbreak.
The conversation inspired a request for listeners’ bitter post-break-up songs. Scott wanted homemade Taylor Swift equivalents, whether fully recorded or supplied only as lyrics for the show to set to music.
The legend of Ted Loveday
The University Challenge final introduced a new show hero. Before Jeremy Paxman had completed a question asking for a two-word Greek term meaning “said only once”, Ted Loveday answered “hapax legomenon”.
Scott and Chris understood neither the question nor the answer, but admired the speed, confidence and small smile. Loveday replaced earlier quiz-show favourites and supplied a phrase they expected to repeat indefinitely.
Charlie Sloth joined a deliberately confusing Real or No Real. Mumford & Sons really used Goudy Old Style for their artwork, Ben Fogle and William Shatner had begun discussing an album on Twitter, and DogTV banned cats from its programmes to avoid agitating canine viewers.
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