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The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

The one with Sir Gareth Southgate & Kirsty Gallagher

The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy, Unknown

4.4681 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

England footballing royalty Sir Gareth Southgate flips though his new book 'Dear England: Lessons in Leadership' and recalls some of the best stories.


Author, and Soul and Moon Mentor, Kirsty Gallagher talks about the Super Beaver Moon and the effects it could have on us across the day.


Join Chris and the Class Behind The Glass every morning from 6.30am for laughs with the listeners and the greatest guests. Listen on your smart speaker, just say: "Play Virgin Radio."


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0:00.0

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0:10.2

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0:16.2

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0:25.5

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0:29.9

Our next guest is a national treasure who cemented his place in England's hearts as a manager of the Three Lions and caused a nationwide shortage of waistcoats.

0:38.1

He's telling his story in his new book, Dear England, which is out tomorrow.

0:41.4

So please be upstanding for the greatest of the great.

0:44.3

It's Sir Garrett Salky!

0:46.1

Yes, a girl surfing on the show.

0:49.0

All right.

0:53.7

Welcome back. How are you?

0:55.0

I'm very good. You guys must get up early to have that much energy.

0:58.5

We do get up early. This book is great, Gareth.

1:01.7

Yeah, because it's an autobiography and it's not an autobiography. It's a football book and it's not a football book, but it's definitely a book.

1:07.3

And you wrote it. Deering Lessons in Leadership, Gareth Southgate.

1:09.7

And so the format of the book is it is very autobiographical, and then it's lessons that you learned via the stories that you tell, and then that we can learn from as well.

1:17.8

Yeah. Look, I've been very conscious of leadership, of things that have happened during my life that I think could help other people.

1:25.7

So I didn't want to write a memoir.

1:28.6

I didn't want to be telling stories about players and what went behind the scenes.

1:34.2

But as I've travelled around, I get asked very similar questions,

1:38.0

every business I go to, every school I go to,

1:41.4

and try to capture all of that in one place.

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