"This is mind baffling. I'm losing the will to live, but I'm still none the wiser."
– Caller Nikki
"That's the most relatable thing I've read all day."
– Greg James
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– Caller Nikki
"That's the most relatable thing I've read all day."
– Greg James
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Greg James plays Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Attendance is compulsory, not just for Greg, but also for you... Find clues around the UK to help Greg and his fellow Radio 1 DJs get out of detention.
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September 4, 2024 at 3:41 PM
"This is mind baffling. I'm losing the will to live, but I'm still none the wiser."
– Caller Nikki
"That's the most relatable thing I've read all day."
– Greg James
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– Caller Nikki
"That's the most relatable thing I've read all day."
– Greg James
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Long live Longboi! Remember him? The long duck Greg loves? I do!
That could be the sentence I want...
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That could be the sentence I want...
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September 4, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Long live Longboi! Remember him? The long duck Greg loves? I do!
That could be the sentence I want...
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That could be the sentence I want...
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Greg's just said something which I think is an obvious statement, but he thinks it's going to be something to do with the folklore of Radio 1. Something like fajitas, or longboi...
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Greg James plays Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Attendance is compulsory, not just for Greg, but also for you... Find clues around the UK to help Greg and his fellow Radio 1 DJs get out of detention.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Greg's just said something which I think is an obvious statement, but he thinks it's going to be something to do with the folklore of Radio 1. Something like fajitas, or longboi...
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September 4, 2024 at 7:51 AM
People are starting to make the connection between the names of Mollie's husband, cricketer Stuart Broad and Stuart Whiteboard, the coded board in the classroom. Is it a purposeful homage to the man, who's sport is so fondly appreciated by Greg?
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September 3, 2024 at 1:40 PM
People are starting to make the connection between the names of Mollie's husband, cricketer Stuart Broad and Stuart Whiteboard, the coded board in the classroom. Is it a purposeful homage to the man, who's sport is so fondly appreciated by Greg?
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This meant they had the correct phrase "You're joking - not another one!"
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention
Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
This meant they had the correct phrase "You're joking - not another one!"
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention
Turns out, all he needed was some punctuation! The listeners worked out the final clue in super quick time, finding a dash in Giant's Causeway, an exclamation mark in Greenwich's Royal Observatory, and an apostrophe at The Kelpies in Falkirk.
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Turns out, all he needed was some punctuation! The listeners worked out the final clue in super quick time, finding a dash in Giant's Causeway, an exclamation mark in Greenwich's Royal Observatory, and an apostrophe at The Kelpies in Falkirk.
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Greg was certain they had the right code when he guessed 'You're joking, not another one". When he discovered this was incorrect he was not happy.
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Greg was certain they had the right code when he guessed 'You're joking, not another one". When he discovered this was incorrect he was not happy.
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The note contained a clue which is key to the presenters escape - a note pointing to BBC Sounds which had the key phrase they needed.
Greg and crew finally got out - thanks to some trusty punctuation!
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Greg and crew finally got out - thanks to some trusty punctuation!
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
The note contained a clue which is key to the presenters escape - a note pointing to BBC Sounds which had the key phrase they needed.
Greg and crew finally got out - thanks to some trusty punctuation!
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Greg and crew finally got out - thanks to some trusty punctuation!
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In a truly mad turn of events, Greg had to dissect a toy duck. It was pretty gruesome.
"This is a toy duck," Greg was quick to clarify. "I wouldn't want to operate on a real duck.
I'm now faced with a stuffed toy duck, goggles and a scalpel.
There is a note inside the duck!"
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"This is a toy duck," Greg was quick to clarify. "I wouldn't want to operate on a real duck.
I'm now faced with a stuffed toy duck, goggles and a scalpel.
There is a note inside the duck!"
##R1GiantDetention
Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
In a truly mad turn of events, Greg had to dissect a toy duck. It was pretty gruesome.
"This is a toy duck," Greg was quick to clarify. "I wouldn't want to operate on a real duck.
I'm now faced with a stuffed toy duck, goggles and a scalpel.
There is a note inside the duck!"
##R1GiantDetention
"This is a toy duck," Greg was quick to clarify. "I wouldn't want to operate on a real duck.
I'm now faced with a stuffed toy duck, goggles and a scalpel.
There is a note inside the duck!"
##R1GiantDetention
Greg pulled an epic prank on Matt and Jamie
You'd think that Greg would be putting all his energy into getting out of detention. Nope! He was pulling a prank on Jamie and Matt (but in fairness, it was very funny). Relive the moment here.
Greg and the stuffed duck dissection
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You'd think that Greg would be putting all his energy into getting out of detention. Nope! He was pulling a prank on Jamie and Matt (but in fairness, it was very funny). Relive the moment here.
Greg and the stuffed duck dissection
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Greg pulled an epic prank on Matt and Jamie
You'd think that Greg would be putting all his energy into getting out of detention. Nope! He was pulling a prank on Jamie and Matt (but in fairness, it was very funny). Relive the moment here.
Greg and the stuffed duck dissection
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You'd think that Greg would be putting all his energy into getting out of detention. Nope! He was pulling a prank on Jamie and Matt (but in fairness, it was very funny). Relive the moment here.
Greg and the stuffed duck dissection
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At one point Greg said "I wanna put a chair through that screen.", while Charlie had some choice words too "Listen Stuart, Stuart the whiteboard - I don't care what your name is, you've taken my friends and I want them back!"
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
At one point Greg said "I wanna put a chair through that screen.", while Charlie had some choice words too "Listen Stuart, Stuart the whiteboard - I don't care what your name is, you've taken my friends and I want them back!"
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The apparently sentient whiteboard that the presenters needed to put the code into to get out was trolling everyone.
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
The apparently sentient whiteboard that the presenters needed to put the code into to get out was trolling everyone.
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Later that morning he was spotted by Greg trying to take a tea bag out of a mug with his teeth, it was starting to get to them all...
Stuart Whiteboard was getting under everyone's skin
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Stuart Whiteboard was getting under everyone's skin
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Later that morning he was spotted by Greg trying to take a tea bag out of a mug with his teeth, it was starting to get to them all...
Stuart Whiteboard was getting under everyone's skin
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Stuart Whiteboard was getting under everyone's skin
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"I washed in a basin so small that Stuart Little would be upset about it. I then needed to go have a number two, and needed to go and find some toilet paper - and some was in the bin..."
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
"I washed in a basin so small that Stuart Little would be upset about it. I then needed to go have a number two, and needed to go and find some toilet paper - and some was in the bin..."
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before finding his missing items alongside a clue by the vending machine. Jamie Laing did not enjoy his overnight stay in the classroom.
Jamie was kept up all night, maybe the pressure was getting to him but he heard footsteps and voices "Who's running around at 3am?!"
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Jamie was kept up all night, maybe the pressure was getting to him but he heard footsteps and voices "Who's running around at 3am?!"
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
before finding his missing items alongside a clue by the vending machine. Jamie Laing did not enjoy his overnight stay in the classroom.
Jamie was kept up all night, maybe the pressure was getting to him but he heard footsteps and voices "Who's running around at 3am?!"
##R1GiantDetention
Jamie was kept up all night, maybe the pressure was getting to him but he heard footsteps and voices "Who's running around at 3am?!"
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Jack Saunders may have avoided being put in detention, but the powers that be at Radio 1 still messed with him. He was spotted running around the 8th floor of the BBC offices looking for his beloved loop pedal and microphone muffs shouting "THEY'VE MOVED ALL MY SECRET MUFFS!"...
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Jack Saunders may have avoided being put in detention, but the powers that be at Radio 1 still messed with him. He was spotted running around the 8th floor of the BBC offices looking for his beloved loop pedal and microphone muffs shouting "THEY'VE MOVED ALL MY SECRET MUFFS!"...
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Here's some highlights...
A moment for this fashion from Melvin Odoom
Melvin really got stuck in trying to solve the code to get out, and when a clue about the Peaky Blinders came up he donned the gear right away!
Muff madness from the studio
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A moment for this fashion from Melvin Odoom
Melvin really got stuck in trying to solve the code to get out, and when a clue about the Peaky Blinders came up he donned the gear right away!
Muff madness from the studio
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Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Here's some highlights...
A moment for this fashion from Melvin Odoom
Melvin really got stuck in trying to solve the code to get out, and when a clue about the Peaky Blinders came up he donned the gear right away!
Muff madness from the studio
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A moment for this fashion from Melvin Odoom
Melvin really got stuck in trying to solve the code to get out, and when a clue about the Peaky Blinders came up he donned the gear right away!
Muff madness from the studio
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To get out, they needed to find letters from around the UK which would make up the code that they needed to get out. As always, thanks to the Radio 1 listeners investigation skills they were out by Wednesday afternoon (they'd probably still be stuck there without the listeners!)
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
To get out, they needed to find letters from around the UK which would make up the code that they needed to get out. As always, thanks to the Radio 1 listeners investigation skills they were out by Wednesday afternoon (they'd probably still be stuck there without the listeners!)
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He was indefinitely locked in detention and couldn't leave, many of his fellow Radio 1 presenters ended up stuck in there with him - and even the likes of Jack Remmington and Mollie Pearce from the Traitors!
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
He was indefinitely locked in detention and couldn't leave, many of his fellow Radio 1 presenters ended up stuck in there with him - and even the likes of Jack Remmington and Mollie Pearce from the Traitors!
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Greg ended up stuck in a classroom/radio studio hybrid - complete with a livestream for listeners to watch Greg's new back to school set-up.
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Greg ended up stuck in a classroom/radio studio hybrid - complete with a livestream for listeners to watch Greg's new back to school set-up.
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You're joking - not another Radio 1 game! This one was full of silliness.
On Monday, Greg was escorted out of the Radio 1 studios in the middle of Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie.
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On Monday, Greg was escorted out of the Radio 1 studios in the middle of Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie.
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September 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
You're joking - not another Radio 1 game! This one was full of silliness.
On Monday, Greg was escorted out of the Radio 1 studios in the middle of Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie.
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On Monday, Greg was escorted out of the Radio 1 studios in the middle of Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie.
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This meant they had the correct phrase "You're joking - not another one!"
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention
Greg James escapes from Radio 1's Giant Detention - live updates
Relive the best moments from Radio 1's Giant Detention game with Greg James
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 4:40 PM
This meant they had the correct phrase "You're joking - not another one!"
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention
It was truly a euphoric moment - all the classmates were free.
So, lesson learnt ey Greg? We don't think so... he vows to reoffend, and says he's learnt absolutely nothing from this experience...
##R1GiantDetention