An early Breakfast
Scott and Chris covered the Breakfast Show while Nick Grimshaw filmed a surprise. Chris returned from a birthday weekend in Brighton and Watford’s FA Cup victory over Arsenal, while Scott arrived after a cab-booking failure and without completing his usual pre-show routine of hanging up his coat, applying aftershave and having a sit-down wee.
A dating-app exchange then exposed the risk of group photographs. Patrick matched with Rebecca only to ask for the number of the other woman in her picture. Rebecca replied that her friend already had a boyfriend and thanked him sarcastically for the confidence boost. Scott’s solution was a simple close-up with nobody more attractive in shot.
Welcome to cyberspace
The archive had produced what appeared to be Radio 1’s first attempt to explain the internet. The old broadcast promised that computers would silently communicate in “cyberspace” and described a future in which music and video could be obtained without leaving home.
The language made the internet sound less like a useful service than an approaching threat. A presenter explained email over dial-up noises, while Pete Tong dictated a BBC address one element at a time, including every forward slash and the final “index dot HTML”. A listener tried the historic link and found, unsurprisingly, that it no longer worked.
Katy B, Craig David and unsafe construction
Katy B and Craig David prepared to perform “Who Am I” in the Live Lounge, with dry ice being tested for Katy’s entrance. The team discussed the different ways artists displayed their lyrics, from handwritten paper on a lectern to a phone that might lock at exactly the wrong moment.
Rosie, who worked in construction, objected to Fifth Harmony’s “Work from Home” video. The performers danced around a building site without suitable protective clothing and behaved dangerously near tools, a cement mixer and a blowtorch. Scott admitted that radio was represented just as badly on screen: fictional presenters rarely wore the headphones they would need to hear anything.
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