Hello, Chris Evans here. Thank you for downloading this special edition of the podcast. This week we spoke to a man who needs no introduction, but we'll give him one anyway. Dapper Dave, it's over to you.

Going live on your radio this morning is the star of this morning and now best-selling writer. His autobiography, Life's What You Make It is out now and here to tell us more.

Is a man that's gone from Gordon the Gofer to a morning telesosophore and everywhere in between. It's the legendary Phillips Schofield. Morning. Thank you, Philip. Good morning.

How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. Well done. Thank you. Not congratulations, because you

wouldn't like that. It's well done, isn't it? Um, that's nice. Coming from you, I'm fine that's lovely oh mate this book is something else i wasn't ready for it i'm not i'm not

sure i'm not nervous about this conversation we're going to have but i think you know i might go a lot

more than you in it because you've you've you're now practiced at talking about what you've written

i suppose well uh if i'm honest i haven't done that many interviews um for this reason. It's getting better each time I do it. The

audiobook was incredibly hard to read out loud. Parts of it were great fun, obviously. There's lots that's

great fun. And I wanted it to be obviously a balance between, I knew what was coming at the end,

but I wanted the other stories, all the stories that my mates have said, oh my God, you have to write that down.

You have to write that down.

But yeah, that's been, that was tough.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I mean, it is laugh out loud funny.

Some of it's so funny. I set the alarm for two o'clock this morning to carry on reading it. Because I just wanted, I'm so glad I did, by the way.

And I said, you know, it had me laughing and crying.

It was laugh, cry, laugh, laugh, cry, laugh within seven pages.

It's that seven minutes of that yo-yo of emotion.

So what's it been like for you?

I have no idea at all.

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