Category: Show Diary
Chris returns from Ohio
Chris comes back from the Gathering of the Juggalos, the Insane Clown Posse festival in Ohio, where he has been filming a programme about extreme festivals for Radio 1 and BBC iPlayer. The experience included more nudity than he expects the finished film will be able to show.
In the intense heat, a mixture of sunscreen, insect repellent and sweat ran into his eyes. Chris eventually left the festival and spent roughly an hour rinsing himself at the hotel. The trip leaves h [...]
2 Shoes surprise the wedding
Chris is in the United States, so Scott presents alone and recounts arranging a surprise for his best friends' wedding. After seeing former X Factor duo 2 Shoes, Lucy and Charley, perform at the British Kebab Awards, he decided they would be ideal secret entertainment.
The bride and groom had no idea the pair were coming. Their appearance turns the reception into a miniature pop show and confirms Scott's belief that a sufficiently committed wedding surprise can begin [...]
The Pokémon bush earns immortality
A listener from Worksop presses the Best Thing of 2016 buzzer for Chris's Pokémon bush experiment. After replaying the item seven times, the caller decides that a man hiding in shrubbery and shouting inaccurate creature names deserves permanent recognition. Once the buzzer has been pressed, the nomination is locked in until the end-of-year decision in January 2017.
Who still remembers orange soda?
The Who Game returns, inviting listeners to identify themselves [...]
A doorbell sings Celine Dion
Chris is away for two days, leaving Scott to present alone without Bangers or Innuendo Bingo. Scott discovers that his troublesome doorbell can change tunes and selects "My Heart Will Go On". The result makes an ordinary delivery feel like the climax of Titanic, and the person at the door is understandably uncertain how to respond.
Listeners report owning similar bells, including one that can accept uploaded music. The feature creates the worrying possibility that an [...]
Betty is not only an older person's name
As the heatwave continues, Scott and Chris ask to hear from actual "Sweaty Bettys". Scott assumes there will be few young listeners with the name, but the calls quickly prove him wrong. A 22-year-old Betty from Chatham describes coping with the temperature alongside her husband Will, while another Betty works near a fan in a Lincolnshire woollen mill.
The callers turn a familiar phrase into a roll call of real people enduring hot bedrooms, workplaces and [...]
The humiliating new doorbell
A friend replaces Scott's broken doorbell with one that plays an embarrassingly jaunty tune. It sounds enough like an ice-cream van to confuse visitors and neighbours, and Scott suspects that his former flatmate may have helped choose it. The apparently minor household repair begins a story that will continue as Scott discovers the bell has several selectable songs.
Jordan and Harley face the water
Rizzle Kicks, Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sule, take on Innu [...]
A weekend of awkward DJ sets
Scott describes DJing for Staffordshire Young Farmers, where the electrical supply failed and beer was thrown as the crowd reacted to the interruption. At another appearance in Milton Keynes, a security guard mistook him for an ordinary member of the audience and pushed him back into the crowd while he was trying to take a selfie.
The stories leave Scott wondering how recognisable he really is when he steps away from the Radio 1 studio.
Amy requests a one-week separa [...]
Matt takes Scott's chair
Scott is away, so Matt Edmondson presents with Chris. Their working day is repeatedly interrupted by Pokémon Go, which has spread through the BBC as rapidly as it has through the rest of the country.
The main event is Scott and Chris's pre-recorded conversation with David Guetta in Paris shortly before the Euro 2016 final. Guetta has arrived after travelling through Sicily, Serbia and Ibiza and has spent three hours rehearsing a closing-ceremony production involving an o [...]
Is Gary working beside her?
An anonymous listener, disguised with a voice changer and called Dave for the conversation, suspects that a new colleague may be Unlucky Gary. The evidence is that he has mentioned being dumped at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet, an unusually specific misfortune that listeners already know from Gary's story.
Scott suggests testing him with Gary's old on-air alias, "Gary Bint". The listener calls the name across the office twice, but the colleague shows no sign of re [...]
Bamboleo and the perfect selfie
Bamboleo returns after the previous Wednesday was disrupted by Scott and Chris's Euro 2016 journey. The programme also considers research claiming that young women spend around five hours each week taking selfies. Chris introduces the supposed facial expression for a perfect picture, "the prune", although his pronunciation briefly sends the conversation in a much less suitable direction.
Steph's mother chooses her ex
Listener Steph explains what happened after she [...]