The one with Hugh Bonneville
The Chris Evans Show
Virgin Radio UK
4.5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The marvellous Huge Bonneville swings by to tell us all about his new children's book ‘Rory Sparkes and the Elephant in the Room’ which is out now!
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| 0:35.5 | From Paddington to Notting Hill to Downton, our next guest is in all of your favourite things on the telly. He's now taking on the world of kids literature with his new book, Rory Sparks, and the Elephant in the Room, which is out tomorrow. So form an orderly cue to hear the triumph of Hugh Bonneville. Oh, Hugh Bonneville! |
| 0:59.3 | Hugh Bonneville, aka the only national treasure who's not in Traders tonight on BBC at 9 o'clock. You've just been talked-sported, Hugh. |
| 1:02.6 | I have. I was very nervous because I'm not a great sports aficionado, and so I said, |
| 1:06.8 | please don't get me on to football, because I won't recognise anybody you're talking about. |
| 1:10.7 | And so we were talking about my book, which is based in South East London. |
| 1:15.3 | And Andy on Talksport came up with a fact about the golf club in Blackheath. A, I didn't know |
| 1:22.3 | there was a golf club in Blackheath. But B, there is a secret tunnel apparently in the clubhouse |
| 1:26.9 | that goes from Blackheath to Elton, which is a heck of a long way. And that's going to be quite useful for my second book. So I got a bit of a tip from Talksport. And was that something to you with a war? That I don't know. He didn't go into details, but he was quite proud of knowing the fact. All right, because there's a famous pub, the Grenadier in Belgravia. Have you been to the Grenadier? No. Honestly, what a pub. One of the great pubs in the world. And the Grenadier was often used as the officer's mess for the Duke of Wellington, an absolutely house. Oh, and the barracks are quite nearby as well, aren't they? Yeah, so Apsley House is number one London by High Park Corner. |
| 2:02.5 | You know that big house there? |
| 2:17.2 | That's Apsley House. And there is a tunnel from Apsley House to that pub for security reasons. Oh, for security. Tunnels? You should be the tunnel king. Tunnel King. I love that. You need to get there before Giannal Lumley does because she'll be doing it otherwise. |
| 2:18.8 | She was on the show on Friday. |
| 2:20.0 | She's doing a great book, by the way. |
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