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BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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4.5 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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After they managed to track down the man who made the Channel 4 TDF theme music, OJ, Tom and Rob revel in what cycling was like in the 80s. They also review the first monument of the season and look at the problem with potholes on British roads.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Bespoke Weekly. I'm OJ. Borge. After two weeks of focusing on the sky stuff,
0:05.1	and then what will Dave do next special? The answer is, not talk to anyone, and then leave the world's media asking their contacts. You've seen Dave, it's back to normal, as normal as this podcast gets. Through the prism of the first monument of the season, We'll look at the man who's becoming the unluckiest cyclist out there.
0:03.3	We have a mystery feature to peak your interest.
0:05.9	And memories of cycling in the 80s. Why?
0:26.3	Well, partly because I've managed to track down an artist famous for punk music and ask him how he ended up recording this. So that is all on the show this week. I'm introduce the two people with me.
0:48.2	And I think we've been in a room together for a while. I'm going to do it via their
0:50.8	Twitter byline. First off, one of them is triple Olympic medalists and former double world champion on a bike. The other is I'm going to do it via their Twitter byline. First off, one of them is triple Olympic medalist and former double world champion on a bike.
0:57.0	The other is, I'm the BBC's chief sports writer.
1:00.3	This is an official at BBC sport account.
1:03.0	One is Rob Hales, one is Tom Fordyce, but which is which.
1:07.8	How many Olympic medals have I got?
1:31.1	Hang on, how many gold medals have you got? I'll have to check when I get. I'll have to check. Because the bronze ones in my pants, I'll look a bit like the gold ones. Yeah, yeah, exactly. How many Olympic golds, Rob? None, I don't think. Do you know, I've done this wind-up before in him. Because I've once said, we were commentating on the tour of Britain together we were and I went oh Olympic gold medalist Rob Hales just always assuming you had many Olympic golds but I kept quiet didn't I
1:35.6	what you were trying to say was Rob was such an amazing ride yeah he should he should and actually
1:40.3	the IEC should go back and retrospectively award. Quite possibly.
1:44.3	Yeah.
1:44.8	Gold medals for it.
1:45.5	Anyway, let's work out.
1:46.3	So which one is the Olympic medalist? Me. It's radio, so you have to say. Oh, sorry, yes. I forgot, yes. I'm so used to working in the television of late. Yeah. It's got big time clang for talking about name drops. and one of course is the BBC's chief sports writer.
1:42.2	That is Tom Fordyce.
1:43.7	The most cycling thing this week, I don't want to do
1:46.4	because I want to... talking about name drops and one of course is the BBC's chief sports writer that is Tom Fordice
2:00.8	the most cycling thing this week I don't want to do because I want to switch it up for a race
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