#40from40: Max Boyce MBE
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Singer and comedian Max Boyce enjoys the first Test match in Cardiff during the memorable Ashes series of 2009. Look out for some wonderful stories of Sir Ian Botham in pantomime!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | The TMS Podcast. Classic View From The Boundary |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew, welcome along to a classic |
| 0:13.3 | View From The Boundary from Test Match Special. |
| 0:15.7 | Well, the 2009 Ash's Test Match at Cardiff is just one of those games that just stays |
| 0:20.4 | in the memory forever. Who can forget Jimiannis and Monte Panis are blocking England to that |
| 0:24.5 | memorable draw in front of a jubilant crowd. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, 24 hours before the tail-enders were doing their thing, we were joined by a Welsh |
| 0:32.0 | entertainment legend. Max Boyce has sold over two million records in a career that |
| 0:37.0 | spanned four decades, regularly featuring alongside his great sporting love, which is Welsh Rugby. |
| 0:42.5 | Of course, it was a different sport from Max to enjoy at Sapphire Gardens in 2009, as he |
| 0:46.5 | joined me from a memorable chat I love this one at the start of that thrilling Ash's |
| 0:50.9 | series. I began by asking who, as a proud Welshman, he was supporting in the game. |
| 0:56.9 | England. No, you've got a time to say that. No, no, it is an usual embassy, but you've |
| 1:02.7 | got to. I would have been great to Simon Jones and maybe Croft, he'd have been playing |
| 1:07.3 | as well. That would have been... Yes, but that would have been... |
| 1:09.8 | ...snow slide, but I know what he's been... That would have been a special. No, I mean, |
| 1:13.5 | people forget England and Wales, England and Wales, cricket board. And we deserve a test, |
| 1:18.1 | I think, and we've shown the world, we've shown England and Australia, and we can't |
| 1:21.6 | be stated. I mean, Cardiff in the last five, six years has staged, you know, |
| 1:25.9 | effort, Cup Finals, Rugby League Finals, three grand slams, we've got to ride it, Cup |
| 1:31.5 | come in, the ashes. I mean, it's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It would have believed |
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