The one with Jamie Oliver

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Virgin Radio UK

Comedy, Unknown

4.4 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Chef and restaurateur Jamie Oliver shares recipes from his newest cook book Eat Yourself Healthy, which is out now.

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0:29.5	All right so it is currently the number one selling book in the UK
0:32.5	Jane one of us Eat Yourself Healthy food to Change Your Life written in the Great
0:36.6	Man's 50th year on the planet.
0:39.4	Did he ever imagine it would come to this?
0:41.4	And he'd still be going all those years after, 26 years after the first ever episode of The Naked
0:46.9	Chef.
0:47.6	Can you believe it?
0:48.5	He's been The Naked Chef and all the other chefs now since then for more than half of his
0:53.6	life.
0:54.3	Wow.
0:54.7	I know.
0:56.2	Do you want to give him a big intro?
0:57.3	I really do.
0:58.3	Our next guest is the king of the kitchen, the dude of the food, the main man of meal time.
1:04.2	He's been making our tummies rumble for nearly 30 years and he's back with another
1:08.1	cooking Bible, eat yourself healthy, which is out now. So let's say hello to the National Treasure that is Jamie Oliver. All right, Jamie. Hey, hey. Morning, morning, morning. How are you, mate? I'm good. Thanks for having me on. You're very welcome. Thanks for coming on. I went to buy your book last night at 6 o'clock from Marl Books. It was the only copy they had left. There are any copies in London. It's being advertised everywhere. That's why it's number one. Congratulations, mate. Thank you very much. Super cool. Right. Eat yourself healthy. Health is on your mind. I mean, it always has been, but of course you reached the big 5-0 this year. How did that affect you? Just tell me more about that if you don't mind. Well, you know, when you hit the Big FIvo, you feel like half a century. You feel like you've done quite a lot. You feel like you've learned quite a lot. I do think I was for the first time being a little bit more retrospective about my life and also thinking, well, what does the next 20 years look like?
2:01.4	I want to be fit. I want to be healthy. I want my brain to work. And then immediately, of course,
2:06.3	you think, well, how can food help with that? So about 10 years ago, I gave up every Friday for a year
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