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 routine dog walk became unexpectedly intimate when another owner proposed breeding Teddy with her dog, before Jessie made Teletubbies sound like a deeply unsettling adult television pitch. [...]
Peppa's short temper, muddy puddles and unlikely animal friendships sounded much stranger when stripped of the children's-TV framing, while Pitbull or Shakespeare and The Who Game returned. [...]
Some listeners went too hard on their first trip back to the salon and immediately wanted their lifeless roots back, while children's television plots sounded increasingly deranged when described by adults. [...]
TikTok's Ollie Ball and Jacob reviewed the smell of teenage changing rooms, while listeners persuaded Chris that the foot he injured playing football probably needed professional attention. [...]
TikTok saxophonist Evan Jacobson rebuilt Dua Lipa and Stormzy with unnecessary brass while Chris prepared for his first football match in months and worried he might immediately injure himself. [...]
Rachel's lost Rome holiday was recreated with horns, terrible Italian accents and imaginary landmarks, before Jack Whitehall's dad revisited the story of where Jack was conceived. [...]
Kate's second date was interrupted when her cat covered the bedroom, clothes and wall in diarrhoea — yet the man stayed, admired her crisis response and eventually married her. [...]
Matthew and Simon's shared-wedding memories, scrambled-egg knowledge and vague history of shared underwear convinced most listeners they were brothers — but they were actually lovers. [...]
Aaron's cryptocurrency and expensive-watch profile failed to impress Lynette, while Chris tried to work out whether Innuendo Bingo could return without anybody actually spitting at each other. [...]
The new “It Was All Going Well Until…” feature produced dates wrecked by dogs, dropped burgers and, in Dan's case, the discovery that his prospective partner was actually his mother's cousin's daughter. [...]