Lions Top 10s: Tours
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
1997 or 1974? Two iconic tours to South Africa, but which one ranks higher? In the final episode of our top 10 series, Lions legends Jamie Roberts and Matt Dawson join Chris to rank the best tours of all time. We ask Jamie to rate his two tours - the 2013 win in Australia and the epic series against South Africa in 2009. We debate what makes a great tour - is it all about winning the Test series or are there other factors that determine success? And where does the only Lions series win against the All Blacks feature in our list?
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| 0:00.0 | It's not funny, it's true. |
| 0:05.2 | Lily Allen and Makita Oliver. |
| 0:07.8 | Um, Keats, I've got some questions for you on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:11.4 | Tell me what you've enjoyed about our podcast so far. |
| 0:13.8 | I like that you've got more and more comfortable in this space and I've watched you show all parts of yourself. |
| 0:19.5 | We've both cried. |
| 0:20.7 | Miss me with Lily Allen and Makita Oliver. |
| 0:23.6 | We're just us having a shot. |
| 0:25.2 | Feels like we've been doing it forever. |
| 0:27.3 | We kind of have. |
| 0:30.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.9 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.8 | Five Lives, Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:42.9 | Episode six, the last episode of this epic podcast series. |
| 0:48.7 | Lions Top Tens, we have done icons, moments, tries. |
| 0:56.5 | We've done controversies. we've done test match animals, |
| 1:03.8 | and our last category, Matt Dawson and Jamie Roberts, Lions Greats themselves, is going to be tours. |
| 1:05.2 | And the reason this one is going to be maybe a little bit neater than some of our other efforts, |
| 1:08.9 | is that we're just going to rank 10 of the |
| 1:11.5 | tours. Yeah. So we're not going to get to 10 and then rank them like we've been doing. And |
| 1:15.2 | after an hour, we've been chucking an extra five names into the mix. We're just going to rank |
| 1:20.1 | 10 tours. With a massive amount of respect for a lot of tours that came before 71, the 1936 tour to Argentina, |
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