Three scheduled Feliz Navidades
Two weeks before Christmas, Scott decided the programme could stop cautiously introducing festive records and go all in. A student flat was already holding its Christmas dinner, and a caller who once remained alone in a club so the DJ would play Mariah Carey supported the escalation.
“Feliz Navidad” was played as a complete event, followed by Missy Elliott Friday. Scott announced that the song would receive exactly three outings: that day, the following Friday and during his Christmas Day Breakfast Show. Listeners decorating trees, driving home from university and struggling through coursework treated it as the moment Christmas properly arrived on Radio 1.
Chris was absent through genuine illness, although falling ill immediately after the team’s Christmas drinks produced unfortunate timing.
Another Who Game
Eight callers took on Scott with forgotten names, objects and habits. The first rounds included Faceparty, beef-paste sandwiches, tax discs, Jim Davidson’s The Generation Game, Sunday school, extra-strong mints, putting plastic into a bicycle wheel to imitate a motorbike and the Teletext game Bamboozle.
Scott wrongly accepted eBay before admitting that it was very much still in use. He replaced it with the black MS-DOS screen and continued through Dairylea Dunkers, writing “clean me” on a dirty car, Mr Muscle, the Fray, Duck Hunt, booty calls and changing the selected numbers on Friends and Family. The callers eventually outlasted him.
The show also pointed listeners towards the videos of Frankie Bridge’s Bingo and the previous day’s exceptionally wet EastEnders game with Maddy Hill and Danny-Boy Hatchard. Kel Spellman played Real or No Real to finish the last regular Friday before the major Christmas run.
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