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2005 ASHES Episode 1: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
The first episode of our six -part series on the 2005 Ashes - often regarded as the greatest Test series of all time. Twenty years on Simon Hughes an…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ashes Countdown 4 - Slanging Match
Ten days to go to the 2025/6 Ashes and Simon Hughes and Simon Mann monitor the war of words in the Australian press and on podcasts as the pressure b…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
GREAT ASHES TESTS Ep5: The Miracle of Headingley 81
An extract of the final episode of the five-part series dramatising Great Ashes Tests of the past. This episode revisits the epic series of 1981 - B…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
GREAT ASHES TESTS Ep4: Bradman the Invincible
Fourth episode of Great Ashes mini-series telling the story of Donald Bradman and his 1948 'Invincibles' and how they sought to obliterate every Engl…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
GREAT ASHES TESTS Ep3: Bodyline 1932/3
Third of five part series featuring Great Ashes Test matches. Here Simon Hughes retells the dramatic story of the emergence of Australia's ritual des…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
GREAT ASHES TESTS - Ep1: The Demon
First of a five part series highlighting great Ashes Test matches through history. Narrated by Simon Hughes, this first episode tells the story of th…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
GREAT ASHES TESTS - Ep2: The Master 1926
This is the story of the epic Oval Test match of 1926, and the finest hour of Jack Hobbs, England’s greatest batsman - by number of hundreds (199) a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Ashes Countdown - Episode 3 + Women's World Cup
Deep Dasgupta, former Indian keeper-batsman, joins the Simons on the podcast to reflect on the Indian women's euphoric day, winning the ICC World Cup…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Ashes Countdown - Episode 2
Ian Smith, celebrated commentator and former New Zealand keeper, joins the podcast to talk New Zealand versus England and offer a detached but inform…
11 months ago
CRICKET'S EXTRAORDINARY POWERS
The amazing story of how cricket has revolutionized the lives of many of the inhabitants of a poverty-stricken, overcrowded and violent Syrian refuge…
11 months ago