Nations Pod Guide: Rome
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Back by popular demand, Chris Tom and GRO bring you another instalment of the Nations Pod guide, and this time we're in Rome. Home to the Azzurri, the Stadio Olympico, the colosseum and the scene of Tom's greatest ever Six Nations meal - just don't ask him to name the restaurant! GRO tells us why you should never confuse a Finn with a Russian. Tom explains why Bologna is the real rugby capital of Italy. We reminisce about the Stadio Flaminio and some of the great matches we've witnessed in the the Eternal City.
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| 0:44.9 | Nation's Pod special time. |
| 0:47.3 | Back by popular demand. |
| 0:49.5 | We're going to complete Tom and Grow, |
| 0:51.7 | our Nation's Pod guide. |
| 0:53.7 | Which has been my intention since day one because I never thought it was a complete Tom and Grow, our nation's pod guide. Which has been my intention since day one, because I never thought it was a complete |
| 0:58.2 | catalogue. |
| 0:59.7 | Never felt right, did it? |
| 1:00.9 | The canon wasn't there. |
| 1:03.2 | And to add possibly the two richest, most textured venue to this, we are we doing |
| 1:10.0 | the fifth as well, are we? Yes, yeah, yeah. We're not going to, well, the fifth and the sixth. Sorry, the fifth and the sixth. Yeah, we've done sort of London slash Twickenham. We've done Dublin. We've done Edinburgh. We've done Cardiff. Not in that order. But they're all there on our back catalogue on the rugby weekly feed. were great fun to do i'll hand over the tom but |
| 1:28.9 | this is my this is my favorite this is this is the numeral uno for me in terms of trips yeah so this |
| 1:34.9 | is the order we're going to do it because a lot of our listeners might be heading out to rome this |
| 1:40.2 | weekend for that massive italy against england game so we're going to do do Rome today and then dropping on the feed next week ahead of France against England and Paris. We're |
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