The TFI Friday one with The Boo Radleys & Paapa Essiedu

The Chris Evans Show

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.5 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

"Wake Up..." The Boo Radleys are on the Stool of Rock to celebrate their new album, In Spite Of Everything.

Award-winning actor Paapa Essiedu gets us excited about his new drama Falling, on Channel 4 on Tuesday 19th May.

Catch TFI Unplugged on Channel 4 from 11pm on Friday nights or on the Virgin Radio UK YouTube channel!

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0:00.0	The 80s time pole is open.
0:04.8	Loading musical archive data.
0:07.4	Back-to-back 80s belters.
0:09.6	Virgin Radio 80s.
0:11.6	Big blazer beats and one-hit Walkman Wonder tunes.
0:15.2	Criogenically frozen from the 80s.
0:17.9	From a decade of bikini love and broken dreams.
0:21.6	Optimizing mood enhancement circuit.
0:24.6	When you run out of the past, invent some more.
0:29.5	Enjoy triple distilled back-to-back 80s anthems.
0:33.6	All day long, over on Virgin Radio 80s.
0:55.6	Tilly? Are you ready? I'm ready. Are you sure? I'm sorry. Have you recovered from Pasco, what's the name? Pedro Pascal? No, I haven't. You haven't? All right, okay. On cloud nine. Okay. All right, well, if you can get off the Pedro pedestal, right? We want a big intro for our next band.
0:57.0	All right, here we go, gang.
0:57.8	It's Friday.
0:59.9	If you don't believe us, you will in a moment.
1:06.0	Our next guest stole our hearts over 30 years ago and have stayed there ever since.
1:08.8	Their ninth album, in spite of everything, is out now,
1:10.8	and they're here to play us their absolute banger, up boo so we love madly the boo radley! What could be the very last time of time.
1:30.9	Yeah.
1:31.9	All right.
1:33.0	Come on.
1:36.5	I mean, come on.
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