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BBC: Chris Evans - The Best Bits
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Last update: Sat May 17 04:59:12 -0700 2008
Catch up with a week of Drivetime fun with Chris Evans. Hear the best stories and the biggest guests.
Episodes
This week Chris hears from the world’s hairiest man. There's a real-life rocket man, and a gentleman with a yellow submarine for sale.
Also, he finds out which member of the team’s got a tattoo!
Stay tuned for the Drivetime ‘Sunshine Spectacular’ - find out the best meat to put on your barbie, and why it’s good to make friends with your butcher! And Chris discussed all things ‘ice cream’, discovering the fate of some of the lolly legends of the past!
Plus there's ‘belly pork’ with Naughty Nige, cricket bats, and the man who can’t stop hiccupping…10 million hiccups in the last 14 months!
This week Chris discovered that150 women offered to eat chocolate for a year, there were tips on how to sleep more efficiently, and he had a sneak peek into Terry Wogan’s locker!
Plus Chris met the ‘kid with the fanfare’, with the best name ever! Johnny had Frankie Dettori and ‘Son of Sir Alex’ in his locker, and the team discovered the best way to blow-up pigs from the king of the inflatables!
Chris explores the different kinds of pain, how you get to be an astronaut, and why seagulls eggs are so expensive...
This week Chris has been pitting 2 of drivetime's biggest foes against one another… roundabouts versus traffic lights. Who wins the battle of the junctions? Find out here. Plus, he's been underground, overground, and wombling free, as he attempted to stop-the-drop with litter lord Bill Bryson. And there's been quite a lot of 'horsing around' in the kitchen with Nigie b and his horseradish, and getting ants in his pants down on Britain's biggest allotment.
Will the real Chris Evans please stand up? On this week's podcast, Chris learns how to spot a fake. Plus, from from his new desk, he's been running a clutter-clinic, and finding out which came first - the chicken or the egg. He now knows everything there is to know about sleep deprivation, cooking with veal, and the tales your tongue can tell on you. So, enjoy the genuine article - the drivetime podcast.
This week Chris was visited by a rock legend, Rolling Stone Charlie Watts!
Plus Foxy and Jonny received their first fan mail! Foxy from a lovely lady called Dee, and Jonny…well you’ll just have to listen to find out more!
Chris also sneaked a peek into the wonderful world of the pedometer, and discovered how a 60-strong team are doing the very first re-vision of the Oxford English dictionary!
The truth about Easter, dirty hair, abstinence, sweetbreads, and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!
Hear little Nathaniel entertain the nation with his jokes, until sadly it was time for bed, and - against odds of 73 million to one - Chris heard the amazing story of Antony and Michelle who met because of stray text! Plus Foxy started a text torrent with her ‘sofa’ story, Jonny had the World Cruiser-weight boxing champ in his locker, and the legendary Simon Bates read the football results, from 1973!
This week Chris met poor Greya who damaged her digits, while the team had all of their digits analysed by Proffesor Mark Brosnan…with some suprising results!
The show aired your views on the great ‘Leicester Debate’: Gandi or Lineker…
Jonny had ‘legends’ in his locker, and Chris announced the results of Jonny's health-check live on air…
Plus the team discussed milk bottles, and how to be a good wife! And Chris revealed which TV couple I would like to be adopted by…
Tense? Tired? Stressed? Solve all your problems, and find out if you should ever cross your legs, why you must at least try yoga, and if it's really true that you could fall asleep anywhere?
Join Chris' campaign to save the endangered instruments:- Protect the pipes! Thave the theremin! Plus, live the high life with Chris, climbing mountains, and going up in the air in a beautiful balloon. And in the locker - the mother of all boxing champions!
Unfortunately there is no Chris Evans podcast to download this week…He is back on Radio 2, Monday to Friday afternoons, and his next new podcast will be available on Friday evening.
Don’t forget you can get other ‘free’ Radio 2 podcasts featuring Terry Wogan, Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand and Steve Wright, all available now at bbc.co.uk slash radio 2.
And tune into Chris, Monday to Fridays, 5 til 7 on Radio 2, online, digital and on 88 to 91FM.
Uncover the truth about glass eyes, the secrets of twitchers, and the extraordinary cost of cranes!
Hear Chris give a gushing acceptance speech for his drivetime podcast Oscar, and Johnny Saunders failing to impress on the Na Na Na Na quiz.
This week Chris reveals whether wearing a bin-liner in the gym helps you lose weight, why ‘kamikaze’ flies are dive-bombing into his bath, and how your elbows can make sweet music.
Plus Chris learns about the world of pidgeon fancier Stephanie Langley, gets the latest news from the 21st Annual British Juggling Convention, and meets fish expert Dave Hulse…Dave tells him about ‘Trish’, the world’s oldest goldfish, and how you can tell the ‘sex’ of your small finned friend!
Pinky & Perky, power stations in your home, and wonderful real life stories about; weddings, lost loves and a golfing miracle!
This week: Crufts, crisps, cravings, criminals, kale and Clarkson’s mum!
Chris launched the ‘R-Ex Factor’, got you to weigh your doggies, found out which of the breeds is the best of bunch, and met a ‘Best In Show’ winner and his little Tibetan terrier!
His resident gastro-gnome Nigel Barden introduced us to winter vegetable ‘Kale’, Richard Madeley got into a bit of a ‘tizz’ over the final chapter of his new book, and Chris chatted to the 86 year old who’s been arrested by the police 42 times in the last 5 years!
Plus: why are crisp packets the colour they are, how to stop your cravings fo
As Chris is back on Drivetime from January 7th, there will be no new Drivetime podcast available until Friday 11th January
As Chris is off until January 7th, there is no Drivetime podcast this week...The next podcast will be posted up on January 11th...Happy New Year from the Drivetime team.
This week plenty of snow, plenty of sauce, and plenty of sneezing! the listeners got their rulers out, so Chris could ask: ‘how deep is your snow’…?
Resident gastro-gnome Nigel Barden introduced Chris to a host of festive sauces: Bread, Cumberland, Brandy and Cranberry….and Chris got struck down by ‘man-flu’!
Starring Chris Evans, as the narator, Paul McCartney as the Angel Gabriel, and Joe and Enzo Calzaghe fighting over the role of Joseph. Plus, Jason Bonham as the little drummer boy, Roy Wood singing the carols, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Patrick Moore and Sir John Mortimer as the three wise men, and as a special festive treat, we'll be serving Eggnog and Christmas pudding during the interval
James Blunt, K.T Tunstall, what links you to Radiohead, and the history of toilet paper!
The week stay listening for Johnny with the Monday Blues, Tim Henman goes all sacre bleau, the team's cheeks go red when they come face to face with the hottest chilli in the world, and they discover, via text, why Johnny wears a brown jumper! Plus their colour drains on The Wall of Death, and resident gastro-gnome Nigel Barden introduces them to the world of chocolate.
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