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🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week on the show we welcome friends from the world of television, politics, music and literature.
Dame Harriet Walter tells us about the new series of 'Talking Heads' on BBC One.
Roger Taylor discusses his brand new single 'Isolation'.
Angellica Bell and Michael Underwood chat the launch of the '500 Words, Black Lives Matter' competition.
The combined journalistic genius of Stig Abell, Aasmah Mir, Matt Chorley, Mariella Frostrup and Giles Coren share all ahead of the Times Radio launch on Monday 29th of June.
Plus Denise Welch talks her brand new book 'The Unwelcome Visitor'.
You can catch Chris and the team live weekdays 6:30am-10am on Virgin Radio UK and on Sundays from 10 am.
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear the highlights every week.
Dame Harriet Walter - 00:34
Roger Taylor - 07:23
Angellica Bell & Michael Underwood - 12:00
Denise Welch - 19:12
Stig Abell and Aasmah Mir - 24:18
Matt Chorley - 31:57
Mariella Frostrup - 38:04
Giles Coren - 44:04
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0:00.0 | Hello, Chris Evans here. Thank you for downloading this week's podcast of The Best of the Breast for Show with Sky from Virgin Radio. |
0:06.1 | Coming up, Dame Harriet Walter tells us about starring in the incredible return of Talking Heads on BBC One. |
0:11.8 | The Dynamic married duo of Angelica Bell and Michael Underwood talk, the launch of 500 words, Black Lives Matter, |
0:18.9 | and how teachers and kids can get involved, how we can all get involved. |
0:22.4 | Entries open on Monday the 29th of June and Rock God, Mr. Roger Taylor discusses his brand new single isolation, |
0:29.1 | which he wrote and recorded solo all the way during lockdown. |
0:32.9 | All that still to come, Vassos, tell us who our first guest is, please. |
0:36.9 | This Wonder Woman has wowed us on stage and screen over and over again. |
0:43.1 | From sense and sensibility to succession, Lady Macbeth to killing Eve, she really can do it all. |
0:50.0 | Now she's back performing the legendary Alan Bennett monologue, soldiering on. |
0:55.3 | Please welcome the amazing Dame Harriet Walker. |
0:59.4 | Good morning, Dame Harriet. |
1:01.9 | Hello. |
1:03.1 | Welcome to the show, and well done you on everything you've ever done in your whole life. |
1:06.4 | When was the first time you acted in front of other people? |
1:10.3 | First time I'm at him, oh, God, well, if you're talking about school, you know, real school, |
1:14.6 | I remember, you know, they said who wants to be in the school play and I hid under the desk. |
1:18.6 | I really did not want to act and I did not want to show off. |
1:22.6 | And when I finally got on the stage, you know, dragged on, I played a very small part as a maid. |
1:29.7 | And my first professional job was dressed up as a squirrel being cooked in a pot in a children's place. |
1:35.8 | That's so, the oldest, there are so many questions there all of a sudden. |
1:40.0 | What was the transition from hiding under the desk doing it for a living? |
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