Prepared for the water
Adele Roberts returned after presenting Early Breakfast and taking a two-hour sleep. Her previous Innuendo Bingo appearance had left her drenched, so she brought three cheap animal ponchos originally bought for Radio 1’s Big Weekend.
The choices were a frog, panda and hippo. Adele and Chris dressed accordingly, believing the plastic protection would redirect most of the spray away from their clothes. Instead, water travelled through the openings, into Adele’s eyes and underneath the ponchos.
The clips included golf, MasterChef, Come Dine with Me, Springwatch and a previous appearance by Conor Maynard. Adele tried changing height and squatting in her frog outfit to alter the trajectory, but Chris continued to find the gaps. Afterwards, a viewer reported that Chris had spat into Adele’s cup before she drank from it, a prospect they both found worse than being sprayed directly in the face.
Are we running out of music?
Chris revived his theory that the world would eventually exhaust every possible combination of notes. He was not accusing anybody of copying, but believed modern songs increasingly resembled older records because composers were running out of unused melodies.
His evidence paired Sia’s Fire Meet Gasoline with Beyoncé, Little Mix with John Parr’s St Elmo’s Fire, and Everything Everything with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Greg James supplied another comparison involving Jess Glynne’s Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself and the tune of She’ll Be Coming ’Round the Mountain.
Listeners rapidly found further examples, giving Chris enough material for another case. Scott accepted similarities but rejected the idea that Radio 1 management needed an emergency meeting about the approaching end of music.
Left-handed kangaroos
Greg joined Real or No Real. A study really had found that most wild kangaroos favoured their left hands during ordinary tasks. The research came from scientists in St Petersburg and became exactly the kind of unlikely fact the programme wanted people to repeat in pubs.
The round also moved through cricket, green food and the amount of power wasted by microwave clocks. Scott and Greg drew with 30 points each, before the show looked ahead to Friday’s first play of the new 5 Seconds of Summer single.
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