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It's Saturday so it's view from the boundary time and we're joined by an award-winning

comedian, poet, actor and screenwriter.

He starred recently on screen in the BBC comedy The Witch Finder, but he's a performer

probably best known as a co-star out of one of the biggest characters in comedy, British

comedy history.

As sidekick Simon alongside Steve Gugins' creation Alan Parridge, he's been part of hugely

successful series like Mid-Morning Matters and the one show Pastiche this time and the

film Alpha Papa.

He's an Edinburgh Festival comedy award-winning, a popular poet and of course a huge cricket

fan who once wrote that his summer is defined by the Test Match Itinerary, much like us.

And we're delighted he could fill us into that Itinerary, it's a very good afternoon.

To Tim G, it's an absolute delight to have you. Firstly, just tweaked my mic.

I have just tweaked your mic.

Just quickly, because you were out in the crowd.

I was, yeah.

And we've established that every single commentator in this box got the dropped catch wrong.

We called it as a wicket.

Where were you sitting out close to the internet?

I was sitting sort of about 20 metres below us.

Below you, yeah.

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