Chris McCandless

Also inside the bag, searchers found pain medication, sleep aid tablets, the book Into the Wild, and handwritten letters to his family and his girlfriend.

Into the Wild is a popular book that follows the journey of Christopher McCandless.

Christopher sets out into the wilderness of Alaska, only to perish while out looking for his next big adventure.

None of the notes mentioned anything about his disappearance, but there was another note found inside the book.

those books where you die at the end, like those Well, somebody else is going to write that book.

Yeah, Chris McCandless or whatever, dude.

I don't know who you're talking about.

He ate some bad berries or something or fruit at the end.

I like to be out in the wilderness.

Chris McCandless, you can't find me.

I'm in a cottage in the wilderness.

But I like to know my car's outside and I'm not far from the M42 so I can get home within a few hours.

Also inside the bag, searchers found pain medication, sleep aid tablets, the book Into the Wild, and handwritten letters to his family and his girlfriend.

Into the Wild is a popular book that follows the journey of Christopher McCandless.

Christopher sets out into the wilderness of Alaska, only to perish while out looking for his next big adventure.

None of the notes mentioned anything about his disappearance, but there was another note found inside the book.

I carried a couple of bags at train stations.

that's about the most i've done to be honest um any positivity in your life if anything good's happened that you think the world would be a better place for having shared then uh then text them in 64046 and we will go through some after the pretenders that's the pretenders is what that is and i like the pretenders so there you go stick that in your pipe and smoke it on a sunday morning uh that was kid uh an email comes in a desperate plea from someone who calls themselves glacier but um i suspect that's not their real name although i get the impression they've got hidden depths oh dear hello and good morning please make me feel better this morning i feel terrible love to your mothers from glacier well i've had no sleep and i think i may be in that slightly manic state so i'm in a good mood and i am willing to make you feel better um but uh listeners combine and find stuff during the week to cheer people up And Chris emailed during the week to say, hello, John, I've got something that may interest you.

An hour into Stephen Merchant's show last Sunday, an incredible thing happened when trying to read the scoreline on the Liverpool-Aston Villa match.

And I think we can safely play this clip now, because if you don't know the score yet and you're saving it, that's your own fault, mate.

I have laughed about this without fail every day this week, to the point where it is now loaded on my iPod as a pick-me-up when the chips are down.

I hope this provides you with as much joy as it has done me.

That's from Chris, so let's have a listen.

And Liverpool can come within a point of Manchester United if they beat Aston Villa.

into the wild?

Chris McCandless? I don't know if I've seen him.

It's very close.

Haven't seen Into the

And this was about four months ago.

And in that moment, I walked out of my house like Chris McCandless or whatever his name was.

And I.

Which one was that?