Category: News
Sam Fender told his younger self to ignore the kids mocking his hair and weight, listen to his grandad's wartime stories and pick up the guitar that would eventually transform his life. [...]
Wrap Myself in Paper received its annual Radio 1 outing, Hannah and Joe were revealed as lovers, and Danny Howard remixed former Christmas number ones for the quiz. [...]
Lynette considered cabin crew, an immunologist and a drummer for Zofia, while the advent calendar reopened Andy King's infamous Fyre Festival story and memories of Radio 1's Lolathon. [...]
Celeste gave her Destiny's Child cover only seven-and-a-quarter out of ten, while callers with spectacularly deep voices were interrogated over a study linking lower pitch with infidelity. [...]
The Cardiff Early Help Team let Radio 1 into its virtual Christmas party, while anonymous listeners admitted to riding museum dinosaurs, sleeping with a boss's boyfriend and other festive mistakes. [...]
Children's community nurse Fleur told her younger self that she would face a pandemic in PPE, lose her dad to terminal cancer and later support families living through the kind of grief her own had known. [...]
Faith told her younger self that friendship, music and writing would help her through bullying and difficult experiences, while Radio 1 listeners also fought to save the station's soon-to-be-demolished toilets. [...]
Rosie told her younger self that bullying would not define her, her mum's death would break her world for a time, and therapy, Sam and a career helping children would help her rebuild. [...]
Liam Payne told his younger self that life was about to become surreal, urged him to enjoy One Direction rather than sprint through it, and promised that becoming Bear's dad would be his biggest new journey. [...]
Lynette's dating standards remained ruthless, the Who-Vent Calendar revived Scott embarrassing Danny Howard on a packed Tube, and M&S Longbridge's Craig emerged as an unlikely viral presenter. [...]