Barely Rugby: A little teaser...

Rugby Union Weekly

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Launching tomorrow is a brand spanking new mini podcast series called Barely Rugby (right here on the Rugby Union Weekly feed) where comedian Harriet Kemsley finds out all about life on and off the pitch for England stars Hannah Botterman and Meg Jones. There a five episodes that will drop every Wednesday over the course of the Women's Rugby Union World Cup - and nothing is off limits. Harriet is a rugby novice and throughout the episodes she finds out about everything - from dating team-mates, boobs in the scrum and the perils of touring! So subscribe right now so you won't miss a thing!

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	On the Rugby Union Weekly, this is Barely Rugby.
0:10.0	Hello, I'm comedian Harriet Kemm'sley,
0:12.3	and I am here with a mini-pod series on the Rugby Union weekly feed called Barely Rugby.
0:17.3	We have five episodes to bring you alongside two huge names in women's rugby and probably
0:22.7	the ones with the biggest personalities to England's Hannah Bottoman and Meg Jones. So what can
0:28.1	listeners expect? Hello Harrier, aka Hazer. I think that's the new nickname or Big H. Or Big H.
0:34.0	Big H. I don't like that. What can we expect? Well, I'm thinking you learn a little bit about rugby.
0:39.7	Firstly, I think that's the most important bit.
0:42.3	We disclose maybe a little bit about Botses Love Life.
0:46.8	Yeah.
0:47.8	Forward slash.
0:48.3	A bit too much.
0:49.3	Really?
0:50.3	Dating life and how it works within the rugby world.
0:52.8	We talk about touring.
1:27.5	Necessary. And off pitch, gallivanting. Lots of that. Lots of that. What we get up to off the pitch with the team. A little bit of previous life. We're into before rugby. Jobs. Hobbies. There's lots of hobbies. Lots of hobbies. And we find new hobbies like podcasting with Harriet. Yeah. Oh my God. It is our hobby now. I think so. We should make this a regular thing. We should. Wow. It's all go. Fitness. Fitness. Body image. Wow. That was nice. Yeah. You owe me a soda. All right. What we get up to off the pitch, obviously we've already spoken about, but specifically people pretending to be cats yeah there's there's quite a story about yeah there is quite a story about
1:31.2	that stay tuned so i'm coming into it knowing um absolutely nothing about rugby barely anything
1:37.0	about rugby okay let's let's not go too hard but i've come out of it but i think a fan i'm excited
1:43.4	for the world cup i want to see you coming out as a competitor. Yeah. I think that's what I'm seeing. Oh my God. Am I a rugby player? I think so. I can see in your eye. You're a little bit psycho, actually. Yeah. Yeah, that's been said before. So all that to come on barely rugby. so don't forget to subscribe to the Rugby Union weekly feed via the BBC Sounds app,
2:02.8	as that's where you'll find all these episodes.
2:05.2	Secrets will be spilled, so you won't want to miss a single thing.
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