The one with Maggie Alphonsi MBE

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Virgin Radio UK

Comedy, Unknown

4.4 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Former Red Roses Rugby player, Maggie Alphonsi MBE hypes us up ahead of the Women’s Rugby World Cup which kicks off tomorrow at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, with England v USA!

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0:00.0	Enjoy great music, enjoy great interviews.
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0:30.0	All right, we have a super special guest star now.
0:34.5	Chili, it's over to you.
0:35.8	Our next guest has represented England 74 times, won a World Cup,
0:40.5	and won seven consecutive six nations titles.
0:43.7	No biggie.
0:44.6	She's here to get us excited about the upcoming Women's Rugby World Cup,
0:47.8	which kicks off this Friday with England versus the USA.
0:50.9	So please welcome a guest who's never Aggie, very swaggy.
0:54.0	It's Maggie Alphonse.
0:55.6	Good morning, Maggie.
0:58.3	Good morning, everyone. How are you today?
1:02.0	I'm feeling good. After listening to your radio show, I am feeling ready for the day.
1:06.9	Are you buzzed up?
1:08.4	I always am. Always am. Always am. So Maggie, how are you on a scale of 1 to 10 in a calibration of excitement, 48 hours-ish, before this rugby, this women's rugby World Cup kicks off?
1:23.3	Look, I'm very excited.
1:25.0	I feel like I've been talking about it for some time now,
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