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Scrum V

Dan Biggar: 'I want to go out on a high'

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dan Biggar invites the Scrum V pod into his home to chat about why he's calling it a day for Wales after the World Cup.

He also discusses some of his career highlights with Lauren Jenkins (yes, Twickenham in 2015 is mentioned) - as well as revealing which young players excite him in the Wales squad and why he thinks the team could go under the radar in France.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

0:03.8

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

0:08.6

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

0:15.3

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

0:19.8

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

0:23.7

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

0:28.4

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

0:30.2

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

0:36.1

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

0:39.7

You're listening to BBC Sounds.

0:43.7

We told you the podcast will be coming thick and fast.

0:46.4

Well today we sit down with Wales' fourth Morse cat player of all time.

0:51.0

We gave him the big cell a few months ago in Toulon. He has three six nations

0:55.3

titles, two lions tour, two league titles with the ospreys to his name and he's not

1:01.5

safe iny yet. There's a World Cup around the corner where

1:05.5

Dan Bigger is about to play his final few games in a wheel shirt.

1:10.1

Welcome to the Scrumfire Podcast. Dan bigger it couldn't be more different where the wise to what we had in

1:29.2

too long what was it back in me the welcome the warm welcome has been the same I've got to say but we're

1:33.8

looking out the window now and it could wild be winter here in Swansea it's it's very

1:38.5

different there's my wife face time here this morning from from our new place in Toulon a little James my eldest My and it's very very different year. I think I honestly think this summer has been

1:55.2

admittedly we've been away for a fair bit of it but it's been one of the worst we've had so that's

1:59.8

just making the decision to go to Toulon even better for us as a family so sorry for anyone

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