Six Nations: Inside England with Ford & Heyes
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Ugo and Chris are inside the England camp with in-form fly-half George Ford and history buff Joe Heyes ahead of this weekend's Calcutta Cup showdown at Murrayfield. We hear all about Ford's love of Pilates and how it's helping improve his game. He also breaks down his crossfield kick to Henry Arundell at the weekend and explains how his rugby league education is still paying dividends at Test level. Heyes talks passionately about the art of scrummaging and what he would like to see instead of in-play adverts when he is packing down. Ugo and Chris also dissect some of Borthwick's key selection calls ahead of the trip to Edinburgh with Marcus Smith dropping out of the 23. How does Borthwick plan to cover 15 without the Quins playmaker in his squad?
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| 0:12.0 | Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game? |
| 0:15.0 | Five minute stoppages for VAR checks. |
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| 0:20.0 | Cryotherapy ice chambers. |
| 0:22.9 | Ols in back at socks. |
| 0:25.3 | XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks. |
| 0:28.2 | The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back. |
| 0:31.9 | Games gone. |
| 0:32.9 | The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
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| 0:38.0 | Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:43.3 | Right, Rugby, New Weekly, another day, another daily podcast. We're at the England team base. |
| 0:47.7 | Is this week two of the day? It's week two of the 2026 Men, Six Nations. We're in the England team Hotel, Hugo. |
| 0:54.1 | Steve Borthwick is named his team for the Calcutta Cup. Loads to come. Some big names coming from the England base. Already this week, the rugby special team. Yep. Enjoyed that. Yourself. John Barclay. Ashy, actually making back page news in Wales. Not for the first time. Not for the first time. The Nations Pod. |
| 1:12.4 | I've enjoyed that. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm halfway through. Halfway through. |
| 1:26.6 | She's not got to the predictions bit. Oh, okay. Tell me. Well, I put my neck on the line a little bit. I'll leave that there. Okay. Well, was being France? No. No. The other one. the other one. In England, Scotland either way is not neck on the block for me. |
| 1:28.9 | Of course, yeah. But I've just got a feeling |
| 1:30.8 | it's premature to write Ireland off. I just, we spoke on the nation's part about where they're at, where Scotland are at, where Wales are at, and, you know, England and France starting the tournament so well. |
| 1:48.1 | Should I give you a weather update? A weather update. |
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