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The Chris Evans Show

The TFI Wednesday one with Sir Lenny Henry & Dr Amir Levine

The Chris Evans Show

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.5695 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The hilarious Lenny Henry pops by to chat about his tour, Still At Large.

Bestselling author Dr Amir Levine flips through his new book Secure, which is out now.

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

unplug from the grind and unwind your mind on virgin radio chilled relax cool it fall apart in your

0:12.3

backyard with back-to-back blist out beats ambient anthems and acoustic classics guaranteed to stimulate your serotonin.

0:23.8

Drift off into something a little more down tempo.

0:28.9

Only tracks to help you kick back and relax on Virgin Radio chilled.

0:36.1

Very cool, very calm.

0:39.8

Virgin chilled.

0:41.6

Ladies gentlemen, boys and girls, it is legend time.

0:45.3

Here we go.

0:45.9

Our next guest is an actor, comedian, presenter, writer, comic relief, colossus,

0:50.7

and nailed on national treasure.

0:52.8

His tour, still at large, kicks off next week.

0:55.1

He's back on the road, so please welcome a guest who's worth every penny.

0:59.4

It's Sir Lenny Henry.

1:05.4

Come on.

1:08.5

Hello.

1:10.3

Oh, my God. I'm so happy for you. Oh my gosh. Look at this. This is where you need to be. Yeah, the desk. It's got magic in it. It's now got magic on the other side of it. So, Lenny, Henry! Can I sign this for you? You can sign it and you can do anything you're down well like.

1:28.3

You're back on the road and it's like in a minute's time. Yes, in a minute's time. It's Monday and I hope I remember it all and I'm just so excited. I love that your staff now are fully committed to being on telly now. Yeah. It was radio. They used to be miserable in the morning. They've changed. They've all got their lippy on, especially the blooms.

1:46.4

Do you want to go and get the guests?

1:46.6

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:47.6

Hang on, I'm not even zipped up or anything. Hang on, we're on telly. Tadda. Hoorah, right for Hollywood. La La La, la, la, la, la. Hollywood. I love this new vibe for you. It's so different, though. It's great. Look at you. Comed your hair. You've got shoes on. It's ridiculous.

2:01.5

Do you want to just hold that like because you are standing up, you are standing up? It's Red Nosed Day. Oh, you're, you're back on the road, man. Yeah. It's no small feet or no small, so. It's a heavy lift, isn't it? It's a heavy lift because it's... I've not done it for 15 years and my mistress is literally looking at me going, really? This is what you're going to do now again? Didn't you do this? And I go, yeah, but it's your craft and you never forget it. You start when you're 15 and then you get to be 40 or something and you think let's try something else

2:34.5

and then you do some theatre and you love theatre but i've been doing that since 19 sorry 2015 or

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