The hottest day of the year
The programme stayed in heatwave mode after Scott and Chris’s ice-down-the-pants experiment on the previous morning’s Breakfast Show. Scott filled the playlist with summer records and resort favourites, while listeners supplied temperatures from cars, vans and workplaces around the country.
Chris’s young-farmers version of David Guetta’s Lovers on the Sun had become so familiar that some listeners now regarded it as the original. Requests arrived for the lines about milking cows and eating pork with cider, leaving Scott to remind everybody that Radio 1 did also possess Guetta’s proper record.
Ice down the pants, part two
The video of Tuesday’s experiment had performed well online, but neither Scott nor Chris wanted another silent round with the same large block of ice. Scott proposed a harder version: one of them would telephone somebody and maintain an ordinary conversation while the other filled his pants with cubes.
Chris suggested Scott’s mum, Sandra, then discovered that this meant he would have to make the call. He asked about the weather, work, holidays and a possible barbecue while Scott repeatedly added ice. Sandra could hear her son protesting in the background and had no explanation for Chris’s gasps, demands that Scott stop and sudden loss of breath.
Chris ended the conversation before he ran out of safe subjects. Scott texted his mum to apologise for the noises and explain what had happened, while Chris waited for feeling to return. Both agreed that the call had sounded much stranger than the game looked in the studio.
A tambourine for Bamboleo
Listener Georgia had broken the maracas she previously used for Bamboleo Wednesday, so she spent real money on a replacement tambourine. Her commitment earned the feature an earlier slot, and listeners downed tools, opened car windows and shook whatever instruments they had as the Gipsy Kings carried the show towards the news.
Scott wondered how a single Real or No Real fact had grown into a weekly ritual, complete with its increasingly long pause and its own listener equipment. By now, however, Bamboleo Wednesday had become part of the programme’s calendar and could not simply be ignored.
Alice Levine plays Real or No Real
Alice Levine arrived hot and unusually grumpy. She learned that Tess Daly was born Helen Daly and heard Siri’s famously unhelpful response to being asked to divide zero by zero. A claim about a celebrity baking demonstration at Glastonbury was invented, despite the appealing idea of placing cookery demonstrations beside major festival headliners.
The heat had not improved Alice’s mood, but it did suit the day’s combination of ice, summer songs and increasingly ridiculous cooling advice.
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