Evans above! Festival fans wake up to smell the coffee

Chris Evans: his breakfast show was based at Jackdaws Castle

The biggest racing audience of the Cheltenham Festival will have been secured not on Friday afternoon but on Friday morning.

That's because the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 was based at JP McManus's Jackdaws Castle, where Jonjo O'Neill and Sir Anthony McCoy were among those helping the award-winning broadcaster whet the appetite for the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Evans has a weekly Radio 2 audience of more than nine million listeners, while BBC1's Breakfast programme, which on Friday had frequent live inserts from Cheltenham, regularly attracts more than 1.5 million viewers.

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Published on 16 March 2018inReports

Last updated 19:31, 16 March 2018

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