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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: Damian Lewis, Jilly Cooper, Billie Piper, Cam and Hunter Hayes

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Damian Lewis, Jilly Cooper, Billie Piper, Cam and Hunter Hayes

10/03/2017

BBC Radio 2 - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Damian Lewis, Jilly Cooper, Billie Piper, Cam and Hunter Hayes

With Damian Lewis, Jilly Cooper and Billie Piper plus Cam and Hunter Hayes perform live.

Chris is joined by amazing actor Damian Lewis,  awesome author Jilly Cooper and the Olivier Award nominated Billie Piper plus country artists Cam and Hunter Hayes perform live.

Damian Lewis tells Chris all about his new play The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and playing New York hedge fund titan Bobby Axelrod in Billions. Multi million selling author Jilly Cooper is in the studio to tell Chris about her latest naughty novel Mount! Billie Piper pitches for why she should win the upcoming Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role in Yerma despite stiff competition from Glenda Jackson. 

Plus not one, but two amazing country artists perform in the studio ahead of this weekend's Country 2 Country Festival with coverage on Radio 2 Country. First up, multi-instrumentalist and five-time Grammy nominee Hunter Hayes does a cover of Buck Owen's Act Naturally. Then up and coming star Cam joins us and sings a stunning cover of Tammy Wynette's 1968 country classic Stand By Your Man.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

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