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.
A badly hungover Chris argued that domestic rows should wait until the hangover passes, while Scott confessed he had become addicted to small Amazon deliveries arriving like miniature Christmas presents. [...]
Chris claimed Scott suddenly stood straighter and spoke differently around his Strictly friends, while listeners celebrated tiny achievements and Bangers reached a caller living somewhere effectively COVID-free. [...]
Chris's awful fantasy-football form prompted mock demands for his resignation, while Scott and Chris turned forgotten Netflix logins, shared accounts and an unreturned Xbox into a post-breakup checklist. [...]
Dev and Chris sent fresher Aaron into Oxford University to find out whether students knew Primark, wore old-money salmon trousers and really had “butlers” waiting in the toilets. [...]
Yungblud laughed through a self-review of his Cardigan Live Lounge, while listener Sophie admitted an unforgettable toilet accident on a school coach in France. [...]
Scott and Chris urged listeners to keep looking after one another as restrictions tightened again, before giving Heather an alarming list of drinking games for her third day at university. [...]
Heather's first call from halls was interrupted by a fire alarm as Scott and Chris began documenting what university life looked like when Freshers' Week was dominated by bubbles and restrictions. [...]
Scott and Chris discovered the secret language of the butcher's counter before Sam's mum Serena supplied far more detail than her son wanted about his conception in 1993. [...]
Scott refused to cook Jamie Oliver's five-ingredient dinner without the correct colour pepper, while Swedish House Mafia reduced listener Emma to a fully fledged Cry Dancer. [...]
Little Mix listened back to the performance they had been terrified of, while listener Sophie demonstrated how One Direction's You & I could make her cry and dance at the same time. [...]