Jamie Laing becomes Radio 1’s Ultra Marathon Man!

Radio 1’s All Day Breakfast with Greg James

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This morning, Greg cheered Jamie Laing on his way as he began the first 50 mile leg of his Ultra Marathon challenge for Comic Relief. Beginning from the Radio 1 Breakfast studios in London, he ran to Hyde Park where Jamie was greeted by 50 Jamie Laing impersonators before ending the show at his first running check point!

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favorite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.9	Like Friday Night Comedy, where you can hear the latest episode seven days earlier,
0:11.0	and a week is an extremely long time in politics.
0:14.4	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:17.4	Listen to your favorite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:21.7	BBC Radio One.
0:25.0	Radio One's All Day Breakfast with Greg James.
0:28.9	Hello and welcome to Monday's Radio One All Day Breakfast podcast.
0:33.6	Today it was all about Jamie Lang and his epic comic relief challenge as he tries to become the ultra marathon man.
0:41.8	Five ultramarathans in five days.
0:44.2	And we got all the buildup and the launch.
0:46.8	And the first check-in with him after the first bit of running, all on today's breakfast show.
0:51.5	We also had a quizer who was going to be in the location that
0:55.0	he finishes at today. We got you up to date with all the latest things. It was very Newcastle-based.
0:59.3	In fact, the best thing to do is to, it's just to run it chronologically. So, let's start
1:03.9	with the quiz. It's a big day today for Jamie Lang. We start Radio 1's Ultramarathon Man for Red Noseday.
1:16.2	And all this week on yesterday's quiz, we're going to get people from the location he's supposed to be finishing at each day.
1:19.5	I say supposed to be because this thing is going to be hard work.
1:24.2	We cross live to Harpenden.
1:27.1	Georgia is there. Georgia, good morning. Hello, Greg. How are you?
1:31.3	I'm really good, thank you. So hopefully Jamie Lang will be running through, not through, finishing, running to Harpenden later.
1:39.3	And we've got you on the scene in Harpenden to just give us a flavor a flavor of the town please so
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