

Test Match Special
BBC Radio 5 Live
The Test Match Special team bring you the very best reaction, insight & analysis of the Ashes Test series with daily episodes from down under.
Episodes
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Jun 4, 2020 • 24min
#40from40: Dame Penelope Keith
BAFTA-winning acting great Dame Penelope Keith joins Jonathan Agnew in 2000 to discuss her varied career, including a starring role as Margot in The Good Life.

May 28, 2020 • 35min
#40from40: Helen Richardson-Walsh MBE
Olympic gold medal winner with Team GB's hockey stars in 2016, Helen Richardson-Walsh chats to Jonathan Agnew a year on in 2017.

May 28, 2020 • 28min
#40from40: Sir Elton John
Music legend Sir Elton John speaks to Jonathan Agnew from his piano stool in 2006. Look out for a musical interlude featuring Freddie Flintoff!

May 21, 2020 • 23min
#40from40: Eric Clapton CBE
Guitarist Eric Clapton talks to Jonathan Agnew in 2008 about his remarkable career and love of cricket.

May 20, 2020 • 54min
#40from40: Nicholas Parsons CBE
Nicholas Parsons - actor, comedian and long-time host of Radio 4's 'Just a Minute' - joins Jonathan Agnew for a View from the Boundary in 2007.

May 14, 2020 • 41min
#40from40: Dame Cressida Dick
Dame Cressida Dick, the first woman to be Metropolitan Police Commissioner and self-confessed wicket-keeping disaster, joins Jonathan Agnew for a View from the Boundary in 2018.

May 14, 2020 • 28min
#40from40: Sir Trevor McDonald
Sir Trevor McDonald takes a View from the Boundary with Henry Blofeld in 2004, discussing his life and career in broadcasting.

May 13, 2020 • 55min
Tuffers and Vaughan: “We’re a long way off confirming West Indies tour”
Mark Chapman, Phil Tufnell and Michael Vaughan bring you the latest on when we may get some live cricket. West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave joins the discussion. Plus, they look back 10 years to England’s World T20 win and debate the best commentator XI.

May 13, 2020 • 31min
KP and Colly remember England’s World T20 triumph
10 years on from England’s first ever triumph in a men’s global tournament, man of the tournament Kevin Pietersen and captain Paul Collingwood look back on the 2010 World T20 win in the Caribbean. Find out how a mascot called Lucky, taking golf clubs to training and a late change at the top of the order all helped England lift their first ever ICC trophy.

May 7, 2020 • 27min
#40from40: Sid Waddell
Darts commentary legend Sid Waddell chats to Simon Mann in 2005, reflecting on his life and career behind the microphone.


