The one with Jennifer Shahade

The Chris Evans Show

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.5 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Chess champion Jennifer Shahade flips through her new book, Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life, which is out now.

Join Chris and the Class Behind The Glass live from the rock n roll tower every morning from 0630! Watch all the stars live on the FREE Virgin Radio UK app.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Alex James, Britpop Classics on Virgin Radio.
0:05.2	This is Alex James. Turn on, tune in and check out two hours of Britpop classics every Sunday evening.
0:10.7	Back to a time when British music and pop culture ruled the world, and 30 years on still sounds incredible.
0:16.9	We've got tracks like this.
0:18.0	And this.
0:21.8	And this.
0:28.6	And yes, of course, tracks like this too.
0:36.1	Plus some of Brit Pop's greatest guests.
0:36.9	Come on.
0:40.9	Alex James, Brit Pop classics every Sunday night from six.
0:49.3	Only on Virgin Radio. Virgin. Our next guest is a three-time national chess champ. She's a grandmaster.
0:56.0	She's a poker pro, an all-round super magnificent mind. She's keeping us in check, there you go, in her new book,
0:57.9	Thinking Sideways, which is out now.
1:01.5	So let's have a party with the Queen of the Gambits. It's Jennifer Shahadi.
1:03.3	Thank you.
1:06.8	Hi, Jess. How are you? Welcome. I hope you liked on the intro there.
1:16.5	Thank you.
1:17.2	Welcome to the show. What a book, Jennifer.
1:20.0	Oh, thank you. I haven't.
1:20.7	Seriously. It's so cool. I'm going to go in in the middle. Is that all right? We'll go straight in the middle.
1:26.0	Love it.
1:26.4	Go back to the front and then we may up front to back, whatever.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Virgin Radio UK, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Virgin Radio UK and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.