The one with Richard Osman
The Chris Evans Show
Virgin Radio UK
4.5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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International bestseller Richard Osman flips through his latest Thursday Murder Club Mystery, The Impossible Fortune, which is out now.
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| 0:09.5 | You went to all the parties? |
| 0:10.7 | Went to all the parties. |
| 0:11.5 | And stayed at all the parties. |
| 0:12.7 | Stayed at all the parties. |
| 0:13.5 | Never left. |
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| 0:29.9 | Our next guest has more good ideas than you've had hot dinners. |
| 0:34.0 | He's the king of screens big and small of podcasts and the book world. His latest novel, |
| 0:39.7 | The Impossible Fortune, is the fifth in the Thursday Murder Club series and is out now. So don't |
| 0:45.7 | hold back on the applause and please welcome the genius that is Richard Osmond. Yeah, baby. |
| 0:52.9 | Hey Rich. Oh my goodness. That's not even a sound effect a sound effect. No, and they... That's real people. I think you do want to do it, don't you? Yeah, Richard! It's great, isn't it? Yeah, that's... The effervescence, the irrepressants, the exuberance of youth. There it is! Do you take them home with you? with you? Yeah, well, yeah, sometimes. Yeah, cost too much money nowadays. Yeah, their appetite, their insinciation for anything that costs money knows no bounds. Yeah. That'd be great though any time you make a meal or something. Yeah. And you just open, just everyone's cheering you on. Yeah. With the fridge lights, go on, hear the cheer. |
| 1:28.1 | Go on. |
| 1:46.2 | There you go. Yes, we go. Do you think it's shallow? No, oh my God. Do you know what? I was just about to say that it's atopso. I think it's deep. Yes, good. Thank you. So, Richard, it's Thursday. Now apparently you could have come in before on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday, |
| 1:44.9 | but we were waiting it's Thursday. Now, apparently you could have come in before on a Monday, |
| 1:48.9 | Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday, but we were waiting for a Thursday. You've got to stay on brand. |
| 1:52.9 | Yeah, got to stay on brand. At all time. Rich does from the impossible fortune. Brilliant suspenseful says Jeffrey Deva. Deplorably good, says Ian Rankin. Okay, so there's four weddings in a funeral. |
| 1:58.9 | We know about that. There has been a funeral. |
| 2:01.1 | There is a wedding. That's how we begin this book. In this one, yeah, I essentially at the end of the last book, people who have read it, that Elizabeth, who's our former spy, is in a very bad way. And I think I need to somehow get her out of the house. So I've got a wedding. And at the wedding, someone comes up to her and says, |
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