Ben Miller, Bear Grylls, Greg Davies, Alex Honnold

The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.4 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show we welcome friends from the world of television, comedy, cookery and literature.

Comedian and author Ben Miller discusses his brand new kids book 'How I Became A Dog Called Midnight'.

Survivalist expert Bear Grylls chats 'National Fitness Day' and how you can get active.

Free solo-climbing colossus Alex Honnold shares all about the brilliant new documentary 'The Alpinist' which focuses on the climbing exploits of Marc-Andre Leclerc.

And the hilarious Greg Davies tells us about the multitude of shows he's currently hosting including 'Taskmaster' and 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks'.

Plus Alain De Botton, David Croft, Rick Stein and Jackie Brunton.

You can catch Chris and the team live weekdays 6:30am-10am on Virgin Radio UK.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear the highlights every week.

Ben Miller - 00:46

Bear Grylls - 06:25

Alex Honnold - 12:35

Alain De Botton - 20:13

Greg Davies - 26:53

David Croft - 33:15

Rick Stein - 38:08

Jackie Brunton - 44:35

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0:00.0	Hello, Chris Evans here with The Best of this week's Breakfast Show with Sky from Virgin Radio.
0:06.5	Coming up, comedian and children's author Ben Miller returns to the show to chat about his latest book,
0:11.7	How I Became a Dog Corps Midnight.
0:14.2	They won and only bare grills discuss his National Fitness Day.
0:17.0	Free solo climbing colossus Alex Honnold entices us into the direction of the jaw-dropping brand-new documentary about Mark Andre LeClerre in the Alpinist.
0:26.7	A film you have to see, but you will struggle to watch.
0:31.6	I did, but I don't regret a second of it.
0:34.1	And the mindfulness master Anna de Bottar shares wisdom from the School of Life's
0:37.8	latest publication, the good enough parent, because sometimes that's where you have to be.
0:41.7	All of that and so much more to come. Dapper Dave, who is first?
0:45.9	He's the comedy colossus that's taken the literary world by storm and he's got another work
0:49.8	of brilliance ready to serve up. His new book, How I Became a Dog Called Midnight, is out next week,
0:54.9	so please welcome a writer that's all Miller, no filler. It's the one and only Ben Miller.
0:59.7	Morning, Ben. Good morning, good morning. What an introduction. Thank you so much. You might be my
1:04.9	favorite guest. I don't know, you might be my favorite guest. You're too kind. I'm certainly my favourite show. I have to say, my favourite show.
1:14.0	Now, Ben, the last time you and I locked horns in the nicest possible way was a car fest on some hay bales.
1:21.5	Yes, I want to take issue with you about this, Chris, because I think that morning you had presented this show.
1:27.4	I think you'd run a half marathon
1:29.4	you'd hosted five or six acts on the main stage and then I saw you I saw you host that whole
1:36.8	how many of you were there how does it work it was an incredible event, wasn't it?
1:45.5	Yeah, well, it is.
1:46.3	Thank you for saying that.
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