Reverse Swept Radio 119 - A Cricket Podcast

2020-01-09

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Watching test cricket in the English winter and the Australian summer "The booze helped because the cricket frankly wasn't all that interesting." FROM THE ARCHIVES (08'00): Fred Titmus and the Propeller "For people who rail against the injustice of health and safety - this is an example I would give to them about needing a massive red warning sign." THE REVIEW (17'30): The Summer Game (available via BFI) "One of our favourite quotations was "To go to...

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Watching test cricket in the English winter and the Australian summer

"The booze helped because the cricket frankly wasn't all that interesting."

FROM THE ARCHIVES (08'00): Fred Titmus and the Propeller

"For people who rail against the injustice of health and safety - this is an example I would give to them about needing a massive red warning sign."

THE REVIEW (17'30): The Summer Game (available via BFI)

"One of our favourite quotations was "To go to cricket for nothing but cricket is like going to the pub for nothing but drink" - which feels like a wonderful endorsement of cricket and the pub, and a warning against alcoholism."

Recorded on 9 January 2020

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