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Classic View From The Boundary On The TMS Podcast

Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew and welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast.

We're enjoying going through the archives to pick out some of our favourite interviews

as you celebrate 40 years of our iconic View From The Boundary feature.

One of the joys of hosting these chats is the chance to really challenge ourselves

as broadcasters switching gears from one minute describing a wicket to the next interviewing

of Prime Minister, maybe.

Well in August 2016, while I was testing myself in a different way, commentating on

a questionism at the Rio Olympics, we're welcome to guest for whom interviewing the big

names in politics is a daily activity.

Michelle Hussain is one of the regular hosts of the today programme on Radio 4, getting

up in the middle of the night to be ready to grill those in charge from 6 in the morning.

Michelle had brought her family along to the oval test between England and Pakistan

and took a seat next to Simon Mann who began by asking how she felt being the one answering

the questions.

I feel that it is a good experience for someone like me to be on the other side of the microphone

and have a taste of what we put our guests through quite regularly, but slightly uncomfortable

experience because I am of course much more used to being the one asking the questions

rather than answering them.

Yeah, I mean not only that, you've got to speak for about half an hour as well.

That is much longer than I would ever get to interview someone, let alone be interviewed.

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