The Nations Pod
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Chris, Tom and GRO bring you a bumper preview of what promises to be an epic Super Saturday. Can Scotland win a first Six Nations title? They will have to end their Ireland hoodoo without a host of starters including pod favourite Gregor Brown. Chris dials in from Verona to bring you the latest from the England camp after that chastening defeat to Italy. Will we see a different gameplan from Steve Borthwick’s side in Paris? What did the Maro Itoje clash with Fin Smith say about where this England team is at? Rhys Carre is inspiring the next generation of Wales players after his superb solo try in Dublin. Are Wales ready to end their run of wooden spoons? What characteristics did we see that was reminiscent of Gatland’s golden generation?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds, |
| 0:26.3 | a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear |
| 0:31.2 | the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.0 | Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:42.7 | Robbeno Weekly, Nations pod time as we build up to the culmination of this epic |
| 0:49.2 | 26 men's six nations. |
| 0:52.3 | A brilliant showdown on Saturday in Cardiff, in Dublin and in Paris. |
| 0:59.4 | That's all coming up after another round of remarkable rugby. |
| 1:05.9 | Growing Tom. |
| 1:06.8 | So I generally think that this is one of the greatest weekends the Six Nation has ever produced. |
| 1:12.9 | Not because every match was perfect, not because every team played brilliantly, |
| 1:18.1 | because you had kind of, to my mind, three completely different kinds of big moments happening. |
| 1:24.4 | Well, not at the same time, but on the same weekend. |
| 1:26.4 | First, Tom will add more |
| 1:28.7 | detail to this, arguably Scotland's greatest performance in their modern history. 50 points against |
| 1:34.8 | France, four tries, first time since, what, 99, I think. Secondly, Italy beat in England, |
| 1:41.6 | but not in the way we thought, we would have historically thought they might. |
| 1:46.2 | You know, not England imploding, not a huge sock result, kind of a calm, measured, expected victory. |
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