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The Chris Evans Breakfast Show

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Get lively every morning with the breakfast show.

Get lively every morning with the breakfast show. Expect lots of great music, news headlines, a look at the papers, regular sports updates and a daily Pause for Thought.

The Chris Evans Breakfast Show: The Longest Day

21/06/2012

The Longest Day

BBC Radio 2 - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, The Longest Day

To celebrate the Summer Solstice, Chris gets the skinny from the Sultan of Stonehenge.

To celebrate the Summer Solstice, Chris gets the skinny from the Sultan of Stonehenge (his name is Peter Carson). Plus, take your Top Tenuous to druids.

To celebrate the Summer Solstice we hear from the Sultan of Stonehenge for the skinny on the summer solstice (his name is Peter Carson); and take your Top Tenuous to druids!

Our two fantastic kids for a fanfare are rock stars and Olympians in the making.

Simon Cohen makes us Pause For Thought.

And Team GB's newest recruit, the American born sprinter Shana Cox gives us a history lesson.

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Chris' Best Bits podcast has recently seen an increase of over 200% in the amount of downloads it receives, from an average of 160,000 to over half a million per month.

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