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The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

Phillip Schofield, Dawn French, Richard & Judy, Adam Clayton

The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.4681 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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

TV host Phillip Schofield shares his journey and his honest and uplifting memoir 'Life’s What You Make It'.

Actress and award-winning author Dawn French chats her new novel 'Because Of You'.

The gifted Gaby Roslin tells us about her starstudded new podcast.

TV's favourite couple Richard and Judy discuss their new podcast series looking back at 12 of their all-time favourite Book Club titles.

And the hilarious Adam Hills gives us a giggle ahead of series 20 of 'The Last Leg' and its live 90-minute Stand Up To Cancer special.

Plus U2's Adam Clayton, Bertie Carvel, and Sister Bliss.

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

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


00:46 Dawn French

07:41 Phillip Schofield

16:07 Adam Clayton

24:17 Richard & Judy

31:11 Adam Hills

37:52 Bertie Carvel

44:07 Gaby Roslin

51:04 Sister Bliss


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0:00.0

Hello, Chris Evans here. Thank you for downloading this week's podcast,

0:03.0

The Best to Break for Show with Sky from Virgin Radio.

0:06.1

Coming up, the hilarious Adam Hills tells us why he won't stick a camera up his bum for charity.

0:13.0

Which translates as The Last Legs, 90 Minutes stand-up to Cancer Special and their upcoming 20th series.

0:18.9

TV's golden couple Richard and Judy discussed their new podcast,

0:21.8

looking at 12 of their all-time favorite book club books.

0:25.2

U2's Adam Clayton celebrates the 20th anniversary of the release of all that you can't leave

0:30.9

behind.

0:31.9

And TV Technicolor Legend, Philip, also played Joseph Schofield,

0:36.1

generously expands on an inspiring, super brave and ultimately

0:40.5

uplifting memoir, Life's What You Make It. All of that and loads more still to come.

0:44.7

Now Dapper Dave, tell us who's the first guest, thank you.

0:47.1

She's a comedy whirlwind that'll turn your head and a literary whiz that'll turn your pages.

0:51.1

Her first novel in five years because of you is out now and it's because of her

0:54.7

we've been entertained for over 30 years. Please welcome the one, the only, Dawn French. Morning

0:59.5

John! Oh my goodness. You're right. Nothing like an introduction from you for a nice big flat ego boost.

1:06.3

How are you doing? Really good. Thank you. How are you? Yeah, really good too, actually. Really good.

1:11.6

So first novel in five years. Of course, there's been diaries in between, though.

1:16.4

Let's not forget those little babies.

1:18.0

Yes, yes. There was a diary, yeah, between the last novel and this one.

1:22.5

And that was because I was turning 60 at the time and I thought I'd do something a bit different. Right. So how do you feel now that you've moved on from the 60 starting line?

1:31.7

Well, I turned 63 last week. No card from you. I don't believe it. I noticed, although there's always

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