Making a Masterpiece: Behind Settling the Score

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Eleanor Oldroyd takes you behind-the-scenes in the making of the iconic collaboration between Test Match Special and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

This peak behind the curtain sheds light on how The 2005 Ashes: Settling the Score came to be, speaking to the Director of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Adam Szabo, who prefers not to remember the result of the 2005 series as an Australian. As well as Scotland under 16s cricketer and now conductor Mark Herron and cellist Steve Callow. Plus, TMS producer Tim Peach gives insight into which pieces of music made it into the documentary and why.

The 2005 Ashes: Settling the Score is available on the Test Match Special feed on BBC Sounds right now.

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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.
0:34.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.3	Music. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. I'm gonna' . Hello and welcome to a very special TMS podcast.
1:21.8	Now you might have been able to tell from the intro music we just used,
1:24.9	you might be able to tell with my slightly hush tone.
1:27.6	We are behind the scenes in the home of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at Dock Studios in Media City.
1:34.6	That is because they're recording at the very special request of TMS.
1:39.6	They're currently setting up behind me.
1:41.6	It's the start of the day.
1:43.3	We've got a cellist shaking the hand of one of the directors.
1:47.0	We've got the violins taking their place on a raised platform. We've got the horns starting to tune up,
1:53.0	which you'll probably hear behind me. The Timps will be bringing all the big drama also behind them on that raised stage.
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