lockdown
Coverage of how Scott Mills and the show adapted during the coronavirus lockdowns, from isolation-era features and celebrity DJ sets in the Radio 1 years through to lingering references in later Radio 2 shows.
With Chris broadcasting from home and the show now starting earlier, Maisie Peters became one of the first Bored and Famous guests, Ask Me Anything found a swear-word expert and Tap End revisited Chris’s disastrous school assembly. [...]
Rylan’s brilliantly fooled Superfan Steve encounter came back from the archive, another handwritten letter reached the show and the team began confronting the fact nobody could get a normal haircut. [...]
Scott and Chris launched a no-Googling quiz for a nation spending more time at home, an English National Opera singer performed for his street and Ask Me Anything met record-breaking window cleaner Terry Turbo. [...]
DJ Bontan delivered the promised acid-house remix of No Time To Die, pupils sent Sport Relief encouragement to Phil and Jordan North’s mistake earned a place in the Bamboleo gap. [...]