View from the Boundary: Historian Tom Holland

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sharing his love of cricket is co-host of the Rest is History podcast Tom Holland. He reveals how the podcast started, and a possible cricketing link to Jack the Ripper.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?
0:23.7	It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip-christ bangers every day.
0:28.6	Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy.
0:32.6	Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:37.1	The TMS podcast on BBC Sounds.
0:41.3	Hello, this is Simon Mann and welcome to the Test Match special podcast.
0:44.9	In this episode, we have a view from the boundary interview with a historian, broadcaster,
0:49.9	and author who co-hosts the world's most popular history podcast.
0:53.7	In 2020, he began the
0:55.6	restist history alongside friend and colleague Dominic Sandbrook, and in the five years since,
1:01.0	they produced more than 800 episodes of the podcast, which you can also hear on BBC Sounds.
1:06.4	It now attracts more than 11 million downloads a month and has just been named as Apple Podcast
1:11.7	2025 show of the year. It's very popular here in Australia as well, where the duo have
1:17.3	been touring a sellout show and just so happened to find themselves at the Gabba join the
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