Don’t Look It Up
A no-Googling quiz round from Scott Mills's Radio 1 afternoon show, sitting alongside the usual daily mix of listener stories and returning features from the archive during those years.
Lynette judged another batch of men for Zofia, including a teacher and a magician, while a Bamboleo clip brought back memories of Dickie's Dribble. [...]
With the BBC expanding home-learning programmes, Chris put on a metaphorical mortarboard and launched his own extremely unreliable contribution to education. [...]
Brother or Lover received its first all-female twist with Fay and Lydia, while Scott and Chris admitted their latest Pointless appearance had gone nowhere near as well as the last one. [...]
Chris revived his supposed ability to identify vegans by voice alone, only for a flexitarian to make the whole Vegan Whisperer theory considerably harder to defend. [...]
Scott and Chris created their own impromptu Dial-A-Carol after COVID cancelled the usual American service, only to discover almost nobody knew what came after the first line of Ding Dong Merrily on High. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]