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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: Oliver Jeffers and Randall Munroe

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21/11/2017

Oliver Jeffers and Randall Munroe

BBC Radio 2 - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Oliver Jeffers and Randall Munroe

Artist Oliver Jeffers brings in his new book. Plus former NASA scientist Randall Munroe.

Artist Oliver Jeffers pops in to the studio to tell Chris about his new book Here We Are. Plus Randall Munroe joins us on the phone from Boston to talk about Thing Explainer.

Artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, who has sold over 10 million books around the world, drops by to tell Chris about his new book Here We Are: Notes For Living on Planet Earth, which was inspired by becoming a new dad. Former NASA robot builder Randall Munroe is live on the phone from Boston, Massachusetts to talk about his new book Thing Explainer, a collection of diagrams of complicated stuff explained in simple terms. We learn exactly why hamsters hibernate and why humans don't from listener and vet Gillian Mostyn. Cricket commentator Henry Moran joins Vassos in the Sports Locker with the latest from the Women's Ashes. There's a Top Tenuous on rocket science, plus writer and musician Jahnavi Harrison provides the daily Pause For Thought.

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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