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BBC Radio 1 Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James. Hello and welcome to Friday's Radio 1 All Day Breakfast podcast. We've just finished the final show of the week from outside the Museum of Liverpool. Wow. We did it, guys. We did it. It was fun, wasn't it? Yeah.

Yeah. It was. It was fun. We were, wow, wow. It was great. And we've already seen Liverpool. We really did it. We did as much as... Sorry. Sorry.

Gollum just pops up there. I need to sort this out. Loads of Liverpool. Yeah. Loads of Liverpool. Love Liverpool. Saw loads of it. Loved hanging out here. Just want to say a big thanks to everyone at the Museum of Liverpool for making us feel so welcome and parking our big bus outside. Woo! Woo!

Big up to Niamh and Hannah for looking after us. Also, Mike, our engineer. Mike, I'm going to thank you. I'm thanking you now. And as she walks in, Meg from our live events team. Thanks for looking after us this week. And thanks for coming down if you've seen us outside our truck. It's a nice crowd out there now.

As we finish, and I desperately want to go home and not talk to anyone. But... Where were you pre-11am? But we've got loads of good stuff on today's breakfast show. Here's how it started. Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James. MUSIC PLAYS

Good morning! Today's the day! Finally! Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool has arrived. Well, a little bit later, but basically it's today. And we are so, so excited. It's been months of going on about it. Never stop going on about it. Always wanging on about Big Weekend this, Big Weekend that, because it's going to be amazing, because it's our favourite thing to do. And we've been in Liverpool every day this week.

And it's in glorious sunshine this morning as we are by the docks and just outside the Liver building here, just out of the city centre. I'm going to play Sam Fender in a bit. We'll play Alex Adair. We'll play Blonde. We'll play some big old Friday bangers. Nat O'Leary, good morning. Good morning, Graham.

Greg. So nice last night when the rest of the circus arrived. Do you know what? Getting out of the taxi last night and being straight and I saw you lot and I was like, oh, it's begun. It's begun. I saw Greg and was like, this is it. We're here. Immediately as you arrived, we went, whoa.

So, everything all right this morning with Mina? So much fun. She's been an absolute joy to be with on Early Breakfast. I mean, her hiding across the city this week, it's been iconic, to be honest. She's just been smuggled out of the studio. She literally crawled, Greg. She looked like something from The Last of Us. She was turning her head around and it was giving a bit like, what's that horror film where they go... Obviously, she's beautiful, but it was a bit scary, I'll be honest. Well, that's what she's like.

You know, she's a great traitor for that reason. Treacherous. And I don't trust her. No, I wouldn't trust her if I were you. She has got a real mean streak and I'll be honest. She's been very coy this week. She doesn't want to give anything away. Well, she did tell me she had to rip a few tickets up as well, though, which was quite, I think that's quite sad, you know, losing those tickets. But that's the drama of it, I guess. That's the drama.

It's been a great week. We've loved being in Liverpool this week and we are going to bring it home today with one final breakfast show from the centre of this glorious city that I'm fully, fully into, fully in love with. We had a night last night at... Where did you...

Where did you go? I went to Dirty Nelly's. Now, see, Greg, when I got out of the taxi, Greg was like, we're going to go and get some dinner if you fancy. Now, obviously, I had early breakfast, so I did the sensible thing and I went home. I went into my hotel room and I just tried to get an early night. But now I'm quite sad that I didn't come. Dirty Nelly's, can you just describe what that is? It's just one of the greatest places I've ever been to.

Why is it so... Why is it called Dirty? Why is Nelly Dirty? Well, it was three pound pints. Nice. Five baby gins for five pounds. And an amazing guy called Danny O'Donnell, who was doing acoustic guitar stuff. Stop. Covers. And then...

Turned into a huge thing along with all of us because we all just piled in there. Of course, you lot were doing karaoke with your pick-me energy. Yeah, of course. Of course. Not the breakfast team doing karaoke. But a Radio 1 crowd is a really good crowd for a guy who was kind of...

playing to about four people before we turned up and he was kind of overwhelmed by the end because we were doing huge sing-alongs to Queen and to Robbie and to God knows what else. Oh my God, I'm actually really jealous I missed it now but that makes sense for the tired looks on some of your faces this morning. Not yours, Greg, you're always chirper. Oh, thanks so much. So there was one point where I looked at producer Tom and he looked at me and Tom was like, we should book this guy for Big E. LAUGHTER

But that's the level of delirium that we've reached and the level of excitement we've got for Big Weekend. We're just like, wow, our lives are here now and we can just book this guy for Big Weekend. Let's see if we can get him on the main stage. Hang on, didn't you message someone last night? Stop. Tom messaged someone from the stage team. Wait, what did the message say? You genuinely wanted to book this guy? Yeah. So is he booked? Yes.

We can't make that promise. We have actually very little power, as you know. If there's one thing you guys can do, it's make things happen. The Breakfast team make things happen. Danny O'Donnell on the main stage over the weekend. He's got a great voice, I'm not even joking. Anyway, let's start the Breakfast show. Yes, good start, strong start. And the final of the quiz was really good. It was great to have Callum and Charlie in person.

Charlie, you're going to get to go first on the quiz as you are in the lead. 20 points this week. Brilliant, brilliant performance. And what I've done is I've actually sent the dinger boy out. He's doing the dings from outside the truck that we're in because he took a shine to you earlier this week and gave you extra points just because he seemed to...

be quite into you so I thought it was better that you were just outside to just get rid of the awkwardness. Is that okay? Yeah, probably for the best. Yeah. So you've got 20 points this week so you get to go first and if you win we get to hear Peggy Goo and Callum if you win we get to hear Martin Solvig with Places. Here we go then. We do, dinger boy, we do have some dingers don't we? Yeah, there we go. First to five. Charlie, here we go with question number one. Scientists revealed the Earth's core was leaking what? Precious metals or confidential information?

Precious metals. Correct. Callum, it was reported a single astronomer discovered 200 what? Previously known, unknown Kardashian sisters or moons around Saturn? Moons around Saturn. The moons, yes. Charlie, Livingston drew one all against Ross County, but which Newsby presenter is Livingston's biggest fan? Callum Leslie. Yes. Callum, which Luke set records in the darts premiere by winning in Sheffield? Luke Littler. Correct. Charlie, yesterday was National Maritime Day. Give me your best impression of a ship's horn.

Very good. Callum, it was revealed that a bat in Australia flies up to 150 kilometres at night in search of food. Please do an impression of a very tired bat. Oh, good night, mate. Oh, lovely. A bat saying good night. Lovely. Charlie, the release date for the Devil Wears Prada sequel was released, but which famous Meryl plays Miranda Priestley? Meryl Streep. Yes. Callum, which Flowers and We Can't Stop Singer teased a new album?

Miley Cyrus. Yes. Charlie, this for the win. Both very good quizzers here. Aaron Taylor-Johnson sent James Bond rumours spinning yesterday. But who's the most recent actor to play James Bond? Daniel Craig. You're saying Daniel Craig? I think so. I think he's the Wirral's own Daniel Craig as well. And you have won yesterday's quiz. Charlie, nice work. Very, very good. Winning choice from you will be Peggy Goo.

A great week on yesterday's quiz and Let's Play It Goes Like Na Na Na are going to sound amazing in the sunshine on a Friday morning. They basically stayed around because they helped us out with today's showdown. And it's Friday morning and we're live from Liverpool. It's the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and this is Greg James alongside Mina from The Traitors who's hiding somewhere. But where?

That's a good question, Greg. It is. It is. So it will be two people. We need two people for the final pair of tickets for Radio 1's big weekend. Give us some information. Give us something to go off. Please, Mina. Yeah. Yesterday I said I was...

In and around, around, whereas today I'm telling you I'm in Liverpool. So give us a little something, please, Marina. OK, so your first clue is... Again, Greg, that's... The birds...

That's right. I can see the bird from here, the liver bird on the liver building, but you're saying birds plural. Hmm. Oh, are you? Oh, yeah. Do you want me to repeat it again? You can if you want. Yeah. I can remember it, but yeah. No, go on, go on, go on, go on. If you can find the birds, you might find me. All right. Thoughts, please, on 03-700-100-100. Where is Mina? Find her. You're going to Big Weekend.

Shannon. Greg, 100%, she's in Sefton Park. I'm Shannon in South Wales. That would make sense, wouldn't it? On the last day. I think that really would make sense. Happy Friday. It sounds like she's on the ferry. Ferry, Costa Mersey. Mike and Paul. See, on a ferry's not a bad shout because it did sound sort of industrial. It did sound like there was stuff going on. I've sent yesterday's quiz finalists...

out and about because in the clue she mentioned you'll find me where the birds are and I immediately thought of the liver bird which is sitting atop of the liver building here in Liverpool and

So I've sent out Charlie and Callum from yesterday's quiz. Can you both hear me? We can, Greg. Oh, good. Where are you? We're just outside the Lava building. Oh, great, OK. Is anything happening around there? Can you see anything? Is there a door that you could push? Is there a person you could speak to? Is there anything? Not anyone that's looking too friendly right now, but, yeah. There is one of those sightseeing buses, but it doesn't look like Mina's on the top of that. Mm-hm.

Is there anyone in the bus at all? No. Mina? Hello. I wonder if you lot are near each other. So we've sent the quizzers to outside the Liver building. Okay. I think Callum, there's a big bin lorry going past you, which you're about to hear, I think. There it is. Can you shout, Mina! To see if you can get her out of there. Mina! It's going to have to be louder, I'm afraid.

Mina! Oh, I am enjoying this. We have had two people just turn up in a car, running around looking for us. Oh, interesting. I can't quite see you from here, but you're just down the road a little bit. So people are desperate for these final tickets, I guess.

It's getting quite busy now. There's more and more people turning off. There's more and more people turning off. A lot of people think it's the liver building, you see. And the ferry terminal as well, they're looking round. The ferry terminal's not a bad shout because we just had that voice note from Mike. Happy Friday. It sounds like she's on the ferry. Ferry, Costa Merce, Mike and Paul. Yeah, I don't think we're that far away, you know. I think if you are near here...

My money would be on sort of the docks or the liver building or as Mike was saying, maybe... It sounds... Listen to that. That's the noise from Mina's microphone. Greg? What I will say is... I don't really know much about the high seas, but it sounds very clanky, whatever's going on there. It sounds like clanking metal. Hmm. I mean, I can see the birds.

We can all see the birds, Mina. Do you really think I'd be that predictable? What, sitting on a boat? To be in the liver building? Yes. Do you think? You've already done that. Well, that's true, but we've hidden in the liver building before. But I just feel...

I think you're quite close, you know. I think you're quite close to us where we are here at the Museum of Liverpool. Yeah, I'm not disputing that, but I can confirm that I'm not at the Liver Building. Oh, OK. Carla and Charlie, I've wasted your time. Sorry, guys. That's fine, don't worry. Sorry, come back to the studio before I eat all your pastries. All right.

More theories, please, on 03700100100. Where is Mina today? We'll find you and we're going to give away those tickets. The sun is beating down on our studio here in the centre of Liverpool. Mina! Hello, Greg. It's so noisy where you are. What the hell's going on? I'm not staying inside on a gorgeous day like this. I'm making the most of the...

Liverpool City, I suppose, yeah. City centre. City centre, where I can't even speak. I thought you were malfunctioning. It's been a long week for all of us. I was glitching then. You were just on a loop. You'd have just gone on for it. City centre, city centre, city centre, city centre, city centre, city centre, city centre.

So, we've got loads of guesses coming in. People are on to you today, I think. Could the bird's clue be she's got a bird's eye view of the city? Could she be at the Radio City Tower? Oh, the Radio City Tower. Amazing monument to the power of brilliant radio.

Sadly, not a radio station in it anymore, but we can get into that another time. But what an amazing place. For a radio nerd, that is an amazing, iconic structure. Look, we need to find you today, and these are good theories. These are good leads. Hi, it's Becky. Has anyone checked the multicoloured pigeons that are dotted around the city? Multicoloured pigeons? What do we know about the multicoloured pigeons? I mean, I actually don't know where they are. LAUGHTER

Callum, Charlie, do we know about the multicoloured pigeons? It's a first for me, though. Yeah, it's a first for me. No, OK, the multicoloured pigeons. You're on your own there with your multicoloured pigeons, I'm afraid, Becky. Paul is in Liverpool. Greg, Bromley Moor Dock sounds like a good contender. Everton's new ground area, somewhere around there, maybe. Some voice that is, some accent that is. Greg...

Bromley Moor Doch sounds like a good contender. Everton's new ground area, somewhere around there maybe. I love the way he says Doch. Doch! And we have a clue. Do we have a clue, Mina?

Something's just appeared on my screen. Oh, yeah, yeah, already? Yeah, something's appeared. Can I play it? Do you know what? Yeah, yeah. It's actually from one of your Air Force huns. Little voice note. So hit play for us and let's see what we can work out. Hi there, Greg. It's me, Alison Hammond. Hope you're well. Listen, these are the very last tickets. You want to get involved today.

But make sure you don't fall from grace there. That's my little clue. Oh, I think I've got it. OK, I think I've got this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The BBC Sounds app says someone here on text. Sorry to just come through. The Sounds app says something about Greg having a bath.

The steam packet ferry terminal is right next to the Liber building. It's so clanky where you are today, Mina. It's got to be something to do with the water, hasn't it? Yeah. Oh, Matt the Gardener says, it now says, splish, splash, Greggy's having a bath. And referring to the water at the dock, says Matt the Gardener. Yeah, a few others. Water, the birds and the water thing. Alice says, have you seen this? It says...

Yeah, OK, you're sending the same thing through. That's good, thank you. So it's got to be... Look, cos I think the next part of this clue is... Get ready, guys. Oh, my gosh! Are you all right? Oh, my gosh! Oh, my God, are you all right? I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! This was from this morning.

in Northern Ireland, as you can see. It's very wet in Northern Ireland. I'm so sorry, guys. I think it was some sailors that were helping out Alison Hammond do the weather on the old-fashioned This Morning weather map in the Albert Dock, and she swerved out the way of one of them and then fell in the water. That's what that's referring to. So...

Albert Dock, surely. Surely that's the place that people need to go and have a look at to see if you're there. Get here fast, but safely. Safely, please. Safely, but fastly. Let's cross back to Mina. Greg. Hello.

Hello. That's so loud. Loud noises. What's happening? Do you want to know where I am right now? I do. Obviously you do. But honestly, it's epic. I've been found. I've been found by two lovely listeners, Pete and Nathan. And Greg, we are on the Splash Tour Liverpool tour.

Boat bus. We are literally in the docks, like, going around on this bus, and it's brilliant. Literally on the water. You're on the water right now. Yeah, right now as we speak. That's the noise. It's not one of those duck ones, is it?

That's right, yeah. I'm so jealous. I've never been on one of those before and I love ducks. And that's really fun and I'm envious. So you're with Nathan and you're with Pete, so they found you. Yeah, they found me. The two listeners who have found me, they

They have a chance to win the last set of tickets to the big weekend that's kicking off this afternoon in Sefton Park. And are they well aware of what's at stake here? Are they well aware of the split and steal situation? That's right. Have you guys been listening all week, Nathan? Oh, yeah, I've been listening all week. Oh, what does that mean? Have you got a plan today? Are you going to share? Are we splitting? I can't say. He just said no comment. Pete, where's your head at? Very mysterious.

I'm going to be honest, I'm going to split. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to split because...

I think it'd be nice. Yeah? I want to go tonight to see Biffy, and I've got no one else to go with. OK, so you'd be happy to go by yourself? If by myself, yeah. Pete, where have you come from today, Pete? When did you work out where Mina was? I didn't work it out, my wife did, and she rang me from work, because I was clueless, and literally my flat is about two minutes away from Splash Tourist, so I literally legged it across the dock,

In fact, we're just going past my flat now. In the water. You can wait for your wife. There you go. Well, Nathan and Pete, stand by. It's going to be a slightly noisy giveaway, but it will be a giveaway nonetheless. We'll play Confidence Man and we'll be back with the final showdown next. Let's go back to the docks and the duck as well. Hello, Greg. The splash tour on a big duck boat.

duck boat so Mina you're there with Nathan and with Pete we've heard from Pete who sounds very generous and very very big hearted and then on the other side you've got Nathan who's playing quite a quite a devious game oh hello Mina's having a bit of a headphones bear with us my headphones were like no you don't sorry I'm back I'm back all good

Is everything okay? All good. No one's drowning. Well, that's really good. That would be a really terrible start to the big weekend. Greg, it's such a good day to be on this splash tour bus because it's just sunny on the docks. It's stunning. But that's not why you're back at me. Nathan and Pete have written down their decision. Okay. I'm a little bit sad that this is the last time I'm doing this, if I'm honest with you, Greg.

Well, I mean, we could give away some tickets to something else next week if you wanted to. Okay, okay. We can find something to give away. Yeah.

It's been quite stressful, and it's been stressful for the people involved because I want as many people as possible to go to Big Weekend, but I wonder what will happen today. So Nathan was being a little bit more cagey about the whole thing. Yeah, I would say so, but Nathan and I and Pete were talking whilst we had music on, and it turns out that Nathan's come here partly because of the parade on Monday. Isn't that right, Nathan? That is correct.

So he's happy to go by himself, is what he tells me. I have to take the man by his word. And Pete as well said he's happy to go by himself because he's got a ticket to Saturday but really wants to see Biffy today. So I don't know how this is going to go. Lots going on here. And I'm trying to play some dramatic music, but the boat is drowning it out and is providing its own dramatic music. So the tension is provided by the diesel motor of the duck. So let's...

Let's just wrap that up. So here we go then. Have they written down their choices? Yes, everyone's written down their choices. I don't know what either of them have put.

For the last time, if both have put split, each person gets a ticket. If one of you has written down steal and the other's written down split, then only one of you gets both pair of tickets to the Radio One Big Weekend. And if you've both written down steal, nobody's getting the tickets, Greg. I'm going to go to Nathan first. Nathan, please can you turn your whiteboards around for me? Of course.

Moment of truth. Oh, Steele! Sorry, Pete. Oh. He said Steele. Sorry, Pete, and a love heart. The love heart's important because that's kindness. Yeah, yeah. Makes me feel better. Oh, gosh. Pete. Okay, so Nathan Stolen. What's Pete saying? What have you got down? Turn around. I'm really sorry, Nathan. Legend. You guys. My wife would have killed me if I'd said split. Still, everyone has written down Steele. Yeah. Which means Greg...

For the second time this week, no-one's going. Wow. No-one's going. Pete actually gave it away when we were talking off-air. Oh, what did he say? Oh. He was talking about they were trying to work around work. Yeah, yeah. And you didn't say your wife's name or anything, but you were saying that you needed...

No, my shifts. My shifts I was talking about. I get you. I'm just going to leave these two men to argue while floating around on a duck on the docks. That is... Well, look, you've both blown it. No tickets on the final day, so the final tickets are destroyed.

I've got to say, not the euphoric end to the week I wanted, but there you go. That's show business, baby. And that's live radio. And that was the end of the showdown. Also today, we got you up to date with all the latest things. Radio One Breakfast. All the latest things. Let's get you up to date with everything. And we first go to Radio One's big weekend, which...

appears overnight to have had a major rebrand. Right, guys, who was going to Scouse Coachella at the weekend? Radio 1 in Seton Park. Yeah, Abi, well done. You've renamed it Scouse Coachella and we love it. I think it's a bit late to change the official signage, but, you know, those that know, know. So thank you.

Maybe it isn't too late to get some last-minute merchandise. So, Scouse Cella, I guess we could call it, is happening this weekend, and Abby does want some advice. What is everyone wearing? Because I'd originally planned for a tiny skirt and a sheer top, and...

The weather for the weekend looks like it's given February. Right, I don't know. I think the weather's not too bad. Let's bring in our locals. Let's bring in Charlie and Callum. Charlie, what are you thinking? What are you planning? And what's your weather view? So it does look like it's going to rain maybe later. I was very much planning on wearing some suede cowboy boots, but I don't think it's going to be working out. Not worth the risk. No. Callum, what about you?

Definitely shorts weather. Yeah, it's shorts. 100%. But I did say earlier, if you're a soft southerner like me, it's jumpers for the evening. It is. It's like, take a little hoodie. Extra layers. Take a layer for the evening. Although what I will say is maybe I went to the Wirral yesterday and went to the beach near Hoy Lake. Oh, lovely. The weather there...

I've got to say, it's better. It is. On the Paradise Peninsula, the weather is better. That's sort of geographically true, right? It's better. So maybe, can we call it Scouse Chela and move it? Can we move the site? Is it too late to move the site? I don't know. We'll find out. Anyway, what's Abby saying? What is everyone wearing? Because I'd originally planned for a tiny skirt and a sheer top and...

The weather for the weekend looks like it's given February. Oh, God. No, I think we're going to be OK. So, well, if you want to help Abby out, let us know on 03700 100 100. What are your outfit options for Scouse Cella this weekend, a.k.a. Radio One's Big Weekend? Next up, let's go to a very important, serious interview.

with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. She's in charge of the country's money. She was on Sky News to talk about the latest inflation figures, but something was a little bit off. Can you notice what it was? The numbers today are clearly disappointing. We want to see inflation coming down after the cost of living challenges that people have been through this last few years. I think we've got a problem there with the sound again. You think you have? Yeah, I think so. You want inflation to come down? I want your voice to come down as well.

And finally, let's go to TikToker Shpeetum. Shpeetum Sharla, who is having a few issues with his Rottweiler called Canelo. Now, basically, Canelo keeps waking him up in the dead of night, and his owner is very scared by this. It's been recorded on one of those sleep tracker apps, and listen to this. Canelo! Canelo! Canelo!

It's just a very hungry boy who's banging his food bowl to get some attention and some treats. You might be terrified by it, but also it does make some great content, so keep that up. And with that, you're up to date with all the latest things. Radio One Breakfast.

So that's it. We need to pack up this bus. They literally drive it away now. Mike, where does it go now? Somewhere near Northampton, I think. Oh, so it doesn't even go to Big Weekend. So this bus doesn't even get to go and see the festival. I think it's Glaston next. Oh! Ooh. Don't know if we're allowed to say that, Mike. Oh, are we not? Can someone notice this now? No, you've said it now. Well, there's a little exclusive. The plan is, it's not 100% confirmed, but the plan is...

that we're going to do the breakfast show from Glastonbury. Glastonbury. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's the plan. So next time I'll be sitting in here, I'll be... Well, we'll be on a farm. It'll be nice, won't it? Yeah. Anyway, let's not get carried away, because that's a month away. But have a great weekend if you're in Sefton Park. We'll see you there. If not, and we'll just have the show back to normal next week. No more big weekend stuff on Tuesday. I'm not on a Monday, because that would be ridiculous. And I'll be back with you Tuesday, bright and early. Goodbye.

Bye. Bye. Bye.