The TFI Friday one with Ben Miller & Jessica Raine
The Chris Evans Show
Virgin Radio UK
4.5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The brilliant Ben Miller has us chuckling with word of his new novel, A Very Dangerous Pursuit, and awesome actor Jessica Raine chats about her new drama series, Two Weeks in August!
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| 0:00.0 | From comedy to acting to writing our next guest is a national treasure, who always strikes |
| 0:05.1 | goals. |
| 0:05.5 | His debut adult's novel is out now, a very dangerous pursuit. |
| 0:10.1 | So please welcome the all-killer, the no-filler, the never-any-filler, the brilliant Ben Miller. |
| 0:19.1 | Hey, man. |
| 0:20.2 | It's like the old day. It is like the old days. It's so fair. I can't tell you how exciting this is. Come on, yes. These are the future good old days. This is where we are right now. You just missed a bit of live radio then, didn't you? Yeah, that's just wonderful. Super live backstage both days and backstage. What am I talking about? |
| 0:56.3 | Ben, great to have you on the show. Congratulations on the book, man. Thank you so much. Here we go. A very dangerous pursuit. So I used my rule when I was reading the book. There's a rule about reading new books. You know about this? I'm keen to be educated. Are you a bit nervous today? I've just written a book And you've just read it |
| 0:57.6 | And I don't know what I'm keen to be educated Are you a bit nervous today? |
| 0:56.3 | I've just written a book And you've just read it |
| 0:57.6 | And I don't know when you like it or not |
| 0:58.9 | What I did was |
| 0:59.9 | Because it was loads to do yesterday |
| 1:01.3 | And there's kids and holidays and sort out |
| 1:03.0 | So I use the rules |
| 1:04.1 | So as one matures |
| 1:06.5 | Right |
| 1:07.3 | The rule is you read the beginning of the book. So the first 100 pages minus your age, right? And after that, if you don't like it, you can put it down. Oh, good. Because you know what? So it's an incentive then. Well, no, the thing is about when we're younger, we've got no choice about that. But when you're younger, you pick up a book and you think it's your duty to read it. You know, you feel shame if you don't read a book. Oh, I don't feel that anymore. |
| 1:29.8 | You don't feel that anymore. Exactly. I don't. I don't in movies and I don't in plays. I'm just like, I'm with you. You're across the board. Yeah. So, so I'm 60. I'm 60. congratulations happy 60 year yeah we're 60 year old twins here. So I had to read 40 pages |
| 1:45.3 | that I could decide whether to carry on or not. And I carried on! |
| 1:51.8 | He carried on everybody. |
| 1:53.9 | Ben, it's great, man. It is so good. A very dangerous pursuit. So we have a hero that you've |
| 2:00.4 | stolen. Daylight robbery. Tell us So we have a hero that you've stolen. |
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