Barely Rugby: Touring, dirty bingo & Harry Potter
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the pod Harriet gets some insight from Hannah and Meg all about life on tour - and secrets will be spilled!
Harriet finds out what's good and bad sharing room etiquette; from DJ'ing in the bedroom, having multiple alarms and why Hannah is a bad roommate... snoring might be involved!
As we know Hannah is the social animal of the group and she lets us in on some team bonding exercises from dirty bingo, to karaoke and darts (it basically turns into a stag do!)
Lock 'ins happen occasionally on tour and when they do chaos ensues! From smashing plates at Greek night, dressing up as Harry Potter characters, to a bit of cat play - nothing is off limits!
We also discover why Tatyana Heard is called "Princess Tat", and Meg lets us know why Ellie Kildunne takes ages to get ready - and they reveal how Maud Muir ended up with chocolate custard over her face!
And does Ilona Maher finally pick up the phone to Hannah...?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, Harriet Kemsley here. |
| 0:06.8 | Now, Barely Rugby is a little different to your normal episodes on the Rugby Union Weekly, |
| 0:11.2 | as myself and England Rugby stars, Hannah Bottoman and Meg Jones, do use a bit of blue language from time to time. |
| 0:17.9 | So be warned, there is a bit of swearing in these episodes. Enjoy. |
| 0:22.4 | On the Rugby Union Weekly, this is Barely Rugby. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello and welcome to Barely Rugby with me, comedian Harriet Kemtsley, and two of England |
| 0:33.1 | women's biggest names, Hannah Bottoman and Meg Jones. Hello. |
| 0:41.9 | The first episode was all about getting to know each other and I feel we know each other very well now. |
| 0:42.8 | This one is all about off the pitch from touring, team bonding, socialising. |
| 0:47.9 | Have you ever had a really bad roommate on tour? |
| 0:52.8 | Really bad roommate. |
| 1:28.1 | Have you ever shared with each other? No. We tend to have like solidified roommates now. Yeah. Okay. Don't really change as much. But probably when I was in sevens I had a fair few. I had one girl DJing once at like 11pm. In the room? She was DJed. I won't just close names. That's mad. That was funny. No headphones. Just DJing like. Was it any good? No, couldn't say it was good. It wasn't given like beef at her. It was giving like, yeah, 5am in a dungeon somewhere. I think that's a really selfish thing to do. Like you can't just DJ at someone. |
| 1:28.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:25.8 | Like you need someone's consent. Like that is not okay in any way. I so agree. That's so bad. I so agree. Yeah. So yeah, I'd say that was bad rheumaticat. Yeah, that is. Turning lights on. That's bad rheumetica. if you're like sleeping, or not sleeping, but like, maybe like... Maybe at a midday nap or something. |
| 1:27.7 | And they just turn all the light. Yeah, that is. Turning lights on, that's bad rheumetica. If you're like sleeping, or not sleeping, but like, maybe like, get a |
| 1:46.0 | midday nap or something. And they just turn all the lights on. Yeah, that's bursting in, yeah. Better they just walk into things. Yeah. Yeah. Having like four alarms. Would you say that's bad room yetica? I agree. I agree. wearing a room you've got it just one right away yeah you cannot keep doing it yeah and you better know when |
| 1:45.0 | your alarm's going off to only allow like three, probably like, beep, beep, you're off. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Do you think you're ever a bad roommate? I think people would say I'm a bad roommate. Why? Just because I snore. Yeah. You can't help that though. I know. I feel so guilty. |
| 2:18.2 | Is it when you're on your back? |
| 2:19.4 | I don't even know when it is because I don't know I'm doing it. I really hope there's a cure in your lifetime. Well, as a child, I'd be upstairs in bed, mom and dad downstairs, volume all the way up on the TV, could still hear me. So I kept getting tonsiliter |
| 2:14.9 | So I went to get my tonsils out |
| 2:16.2 | And they were like, can you take |
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