Ashes Tour Tales Ep 2: Brace yourself for Brisbane
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the start of the series in Brisbane, Eleanor Oldroyd is joined by Ashes tour veteran Jonathan Agnew, three-time Ashes winner Steven Finn, TMS commentator Simon Mann and statistician Andy Zaltzman to share memories of trips to Queensland. From David Gower in his Tiger Moth to England’s 2010 great escape at the Gabba.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:06.0 | Before you get stuck into your podcast, I'm Jonathan Agnew talking you through a very |
| 0:10.6 | new mini-series hitting Tess Matts special. It's called Project Ashes. |
| 0:15.0 | I know that! I think that's the one! |
| 0:17.0 | Over the last year I've been speaking to the people who are in charge of England's attempt |
| 0:21.4 | to win down under. |
| 0:22.4 | It's loud. They let you know that they don't like you. |
| 0:24.6 | You've got to try and embrace it if you can. |
| 0:26.4 | We don't know illusions. |
| 0:27.4 | You know, not last ten tests, but nine-year-old down. |
| 0:29.2 | England have only won once in Australia in the last 34 years, but could that change this |
| 0:34.6 | winter? |
| 0:35.6 | And incomes, pack, come, it's from the far-ready bolster, stoked to hammer it! |
| 0:38.6 | Come on! |
| 0:39.6 | I'm off against this baggy green thing that they keep torn about and I'd love to stick one |
| 0:43.0 | up. |
| 0:44.0 | This is Project Ashes Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:47.6 | Now, back to your podcast. |
| 0:49.6 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm Eleanor Oldroyd and welcome to another bonus TMS podcast. |
| 1:01.6 | It's the second part of our series of Ashes tour tales from the Test Match Specialty |
| 1:06.0 | here in Australia. |
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