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Reverse Swept Radio: An podcast on cricket's past, present and its literature
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Saturday May 12, 2012
Saturday May 12, 2012
The joy of early season greentops (why Mark Ramprakash should smile and get on with it)
Interview with Oliver Brett (on the state of cricket journalism and more)
Review of Mihir Bose's Cricket Voices
The history of short leg (the wondrous tale of Eknath Solkar)
Debate - "Batting is about style over substance" (Andy - "Ultimately cricket is all about watching Chanderpaul bat for 4 days)
Recorded on 12/5/2012
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
The history of the box (or what Bradman called his "confidence protector")
Review of Cricinfo (how ball-by-ball commentary changed the world)
Debate - "Should counties consider England when they sign overseas players?" (Toby - "I think you've fundamentally misthought this")
Recorded on 14/4/2012
Thursday Mar 22, 2012
Thursday Mar 22, 2012
Saying goodbye to Rahul
Remembering the debacle of Sabina Park 1998
Review of Jack Fingleton's Cricket Crisis (Bodyline and all that)
Debate over an American T20 League
Recorded on 17/3/2012
Monday Feb 27, 2012
Monday Feb 27, 2012
The joy of Kenya v Ireland and Ponting's ODI exit
The pain of New Zealand and the Commonwealth Bank Series
Remembering Richie Benaud's breakthrough game (South Africa v Australia @ Cape Town, 1957-8)
Review of Richie Benaud's "Over but Not Out"
Do you need to have played Test cricket in order to write well about it? (A lot of head shaking from Toby)
Recorded on 25/2/2012
Sunday Feb 12, 2012
Sunday Feb 12, 2012
Is it lack of skill or mental insecurity that makes the subcontinent England's final frontier?
Review of Geoff Boycott's autobiography
Afghanistan against Pakistan
And the IPL Auction
Recorded on 12/2/2012
Saturday Jan 28, 2012
Saturday Jan 28, 2012
Why we like Saed Ajmal's smile and his spin bowling and why it's good that batting collapses are back
Review of Duncan Hamilton's "A Last English Summer"
A little slice of Pakistan - the peculiar tale of cricket in the UAE
Is cricket without a crowd a game without a purpose?
Recorded on 27/1/2012
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
When Kenya were kings - remembering Kenya's heroics in the 2003 World Cup
Review of Peter Roebuck's "Tangled Up in White" (including the pursuit for the perfect batting "formula")
Is there any point in trying to bowl at 100 mph? (including an agreement that Toby will bat against an angry Fidel Edwards)
Reflecting on how Australia really didn't stay bad for very long
(Apologies for sound quality issues - this is what happens when you have to share one working microphone between two) Recorded on 7/1/2012
Sunday Dec 11, 2011
Sunday Dec 11, 2011
Cricket in the Trobriand Islands (where everyone gets a game)
Review of Mike Marqusee's "Anyone but England"
Are comebacks ever a good idea? (as we lick our lips at the prospect of Shane Warne and the Big Bash League)
Why the final day of the Windies v India series was magical . . . and why an over-advertised DVD has upset Toby.
Recorded on 11/12/2011
Thursday Nov 17, 2011
Thursday Nov 17, 2011
Reflections on Bouncers (including an unconscious Shiv Chanderpaul)
Review of CLR James' Beyond a Boundary ("To say the best cricket book ever written is pifflingly inadequate praise" - The Guardian)
The proposed Test Championship ("you are being utterly ridiculous in every possible way")
And the wonders of Kraigg Brathwaite.
Recorded on 17/11/2011.
Tuesday Nov 01, 2011
Tuesday Nov 01, 2011
Reflections on famous wins for Pakistan and Zimbabwe, how a catering company brought commercial cricket to Australia, Simon Hughes' A Lot of Hard Yakka and is there any point in a 2 test series? Recorded on 1/11/2011