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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: Strictly, elephants and microbreweries

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23/10/2017

Strictly, elephants and microbreweries

BBC Radio 2 - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Strictly, elephants and microbreweries

Strictly's Aston Merrygold and the wonder of elephants with Saba Douglas-Hamilton.

Strictly Come Dancing's Aston Merrygold fills Chris in on his journey so far. Plus, elephant conservationist Saba Douglas-Hamilton live from Kenya.

Chris catches up with JLS's Aston Merrygold who's staying in the top 3 of the Strictly Come Dancing Leaderboard, spurring a Top Tenuous on backflips! After hearing there are two types of African elephants, we speak to Saba Douglas-Hamilton who is live in Kenya on her conservation camp, to find out why elephants are the most extraordinary animals with top parenting skills! Along with International Radio 2 calling, you tell us what you call the space underneath the stairs, is it a cwtch, a spench or a cubbyhole? We ponder king prawns, gingko trees and microbreweries! Mike Williams speaks to former Formula 1 driver John Watson about Lewis Hamilton's American Grand Prix success and Father Brian D'Arcy provides the daily Pause for Thought.

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