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My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.

You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.

Ho!

Ho! Ho! No, no, no.

I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.

Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?

It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.

Give me hip-hip-christ bangers every day.

Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.

Get all kinds of Christmassy.

Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.

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Welcome to the Test Match Special podcast. This is Stefan Shemelt in Australia. We've been

bringing you daily episodes from England's Ashes Tour and today is something a little

bit different. John Akin has made two careers

on building relationships. Today, he's known by millions of people across the world as the

relationship guru on cult reality TV show married at first sight, Australia. It's no exaggeration

to say he's one of the most famous men in this country.

But before that, John was a first-class cricketer in New Zealand,

sharing a dressing room with Chris Cairns and Martin Crow and playing against Brian Lara and even the current England head coach, Brendan McCullum.

I sat down with John over a coffee to discuss his remarkable story,

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