Bob Geldof, Richard Hammond, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob Beckett, Sally Lindsay

The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy, Unknown

4.4 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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

The one and only Bob Geldof chats turning 70 and his brand new LP ‘Out The Back of Boomtown’.

Petrolhead Richard Hammond discusses his Discovery+ show ‘Richard Hammond’s Workshop’.

The hilarious Romesh Ranganathan shares all about BBC Two’s ‘The Ranganation’.

And Scottish superstar Robert Carlyle tells us all about the return of ‘COBRA’ on Sky Max.

Plus Rob Beckett, Sally Lindsay, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Gino D’Acampo.

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.

Bob Geldof - 00:49

Richard Hammond - 07:03

Romesh Ranganathan - 13:25

Rob Beckett - 20:47

Robert Carlyle - 29:52

Sally Lindsay - 37:06

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - 45:36

Gino D’Acampo - 52:49

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0:00.0	Hello, Chris Evans here with this week's star-studded edition of The Best at the Breakfast
0:04.0	Show podcast with Sky from Virgin Radio.
0:06.1	Coming up, legendary Boomtown Rats frontman and co-founder of Live, a Bob Geleth chats about the fact
0:11.4	that he's now 70 years old.
0:14.2	Plus a little chinwag about out the back of Boomtown.
0:17.9	Their brand new Boomtown Rats EP. Petrolhead Richard Hammond
0:21.7	discussing his brand new Discovery Plus show, Richard Hammond's workshop. The Forever Funny,
0:26.4	Ramesh Ranganathan, tells us about the return of BBC 2's The Ranganation, plus his
0:31.3	old mucker, Rob Beckett, dives deep into his brand new autobiography. Well, it's more
0:35.9	a memoir, really, a class act that's very good,
0:37.8	very funny, very honest, very vulnerable, very endearing, very warm. I liked it a lot, can you tell.
0:42.7	All of that and so much more to come, Dapper Dave, do tell us who's the first guest.
0:48.8	From punk rock roots to changing the world with one of the most celebrated gigs of all time. He's been there and he's done it.
0:54.3	The brand new Boomtown Rats EP,
0:56.6	out the back of Boomtown is out now.
0:58.5	So please welcome the man about Boomtown we all know and love.
1:01.5	It's Sir Bob Galdorf.
1:03.1	Good morning, Bob.
1:04.6	Good morning, Chris.
1:05.6	Right, how does it feel to be 70 years old?
1:08.2	Totally weird.
1:09.8	I don't mind it. I don't mind being any age I've ever been. I don't want to be 20, 30, 40. I don't mind being 70. It's just when you say, Bob, what age you? 70. It's, it's, and then worse is today, Bob Gelder's brackets, 70. You kind of go, that's so old.
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