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The TMS Podcasts, classic view from the boundary

Now welcome to another classic view from the boundary from Test match special, I'm Jonathan

Agnew.

During the Ashes series of 2015, we saw some truly remarkable cricket, who could forget

Stuart Broad's 8 for 15, and Australia were bold out for 60 on that amazing morning at

Trent Bridge.

In the commentary box, we were treated as a wonderful guest, so the course of that summer

as well.

Sir Sam Mendes is one of Britain's greatest filmmakers on Oscar winner many times over

his work on films such as American Beauty, Roe to Pudition and of course two films in

the James Bond series.

The second of these 007 works, Spectre, was to be released later in 2015, but Sir Sam

was able to take some time away from the edit suite to join us during the second Ashes

test at Lords.

He began by telling me about his cricket playing days.

I would say it was a good schoolboy cricket, I loved it, it was the thing I was best at

at school, I wasn't academically very strong at school, and it gave me a kind of identity

at school in the way that often being good at one particular sport does.

I was captain of cricket for a couple of years, the last two years I was at school, I played

Oxfordshire Colts, you know, so I was a decent schoolboy cricket player, and certainly as

an off-brake baller which I was, it took a lot of wickets.

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