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Reverse Swept Radio: An podcast on cricket's past, present and its literature
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Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Pakistan move on from Wahab Riaz, while Australian cricket moves on from Channel 9.
"Once you get over a billion, it all merges into one."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'21): Cricket Whites
"Your straw hat must be good and shapely and not fit your head like a beefsteak pudding."
THE INTERVIEW (19'57): Dean Du Plessis
"If I was put in charge, I would have to approach the ICC with my cap firmly in my hand."
THE REVIEW (38'15): On Pietersen - Simon Wilde
"Can't talk now buddy, too pumped."
Recorded on 15/4/18
Monday Mar 26, 2018
Monday Mar 26, 2018
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Cricket's biggest celebrity is heading for the County Championship (at least for a little bit) and (inevitably) we give our tuppence worth on the events in Cape Town.
"Both terrifying and incredibly flattering."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'18): Timed Out
"Presumably Yadav was just having a very good natter."
THE REVIEW (24'07): The Kings of Summer - Duncan Hamilton
"The first cup of tea, the second, a slice of afternoon coffee cake."
THE INTERVIEW (33'51): Gideon Haigh
"You should be independent. You should be prepared to go where other people aren't going."
Recorded on 27/3/18
Sunday Feb 25, 2018
Sunday Feb 25, 2018
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Toby's new bat (including the knocking in saga) and the Chanderpauls.
"My relationship suffered over the two weeks that I was knocking this bat in."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (9'29): Hollioake bowled Warne 0 (no shot offered)
"This is a proper and very definitive leave. The ball hits middle and off halfway up."
THE REVIEW (20'32): Feeling is the thing happens in a 1000th of a second - Christian Ryan
"For luck to matter, you had to dream up the possibility of the photo in the first place."
Recorded on 25/2/18
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Contemplating a summer without playing and the rare joy of a bowler-friendly test wicket.
"I'm curious and a little bit excited to find out what I'll do with ten to fourteen extra summer Sundays."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'56): Toby's Summer of Oz cricket
"All of the wheelie bins have cloth covers."
THE REVIEW (28'00): Wodehouse at the Wicket
"Mike was oppressed by that leaden sense of moral inferiority which weighs on a man who has turned up to dinner in ordinary clothes when everybody else had dressed."
Recorded on 7/2/18
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Zimbabwe take part in an entertaining series against the West Indies but the future for test cricket in the country is uncertain. The Women's Ashes takes over Down Under.
"We quickly realised hosting tests is something that costs us a lot of money and that's a commodity we don't have at the moment."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'20): Graeme Smith comes in at eleven
"Doing so with an injured left hand and an injured right elbow is beyond insanity."
THE INTERVIEW (22'44): Julian Bishop
“We decided we were going to visit as many county grounds this summer as possible."
THE REVIEW (33'28): Race and Pace
"A very common tactic was that if you knew you were facing Charlie Griffith that week, you took your holiday that week."
Recorded on 15/11/17
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Zimbabwe gets a couple of star players back while Ashes anticipation builds.
"I remember going to down to the bar and they'd hung out a whole lot of white underwear on washing lines."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'14): The Dukes v The Kookaburra
"We got back to my flat and decided that a game of indoor cricket was in order."
THE REVIEW (25'39): Save Your Legs!
“In this world, there are the Stavs and the Stav-nots."
Recorded on 1/10/17
Sunday Sep 10, 2017
Sunday Sep 10, 2017
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Affordable cricket, the Refugee Cricket Project, failing to explore new cricket grounds and the Pembrokeshire cricket controversy.
"I obviously stymied these plans by moving to the other side of the world."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (15'26): Bert Sutcliffe and Bob Blair's heroic stand
"They return to the middle, arm in arm."
THE REVIEW (25'46): Over and Out: Albert Trott - The Man who Cleared the Lord's Pavilion by Steve Neal
“People would just decide whether he was too English or too Australian."
Recorded on 10/9/17
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: The Dan Lucas Memorial Match, the England mutual appreciation club, the West Indies and international test scheduling.
"I've just had a flashback to the quiche, a stunning smoked salmon quiche."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (15'27): Galle
"In the first test at the ground . . . Sri Lanka won by an innings and every single one of their wickets was taken by a spinner."
THE REVIEW (28'22): Following On - Emma John
“It's just a license to go and get smashed."
Recorded on 20/8/17
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Triumph for a Toby, triumph for England women's team, the weather gods wreak havoc and the YouTube blackhole.
"You are also supposed to predict the weather more accurately than the Met Office."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'56): When KP became captain
"At that point, it was the start of a brave new era."
THE REVIEW (21'58): Amazing Grace: The Man who was W.G. - Richard Tomlinson
“He finds the trout fishing too easy so he decides to go bear tracking."
Recorded on 30/7/17
Monday Jun 12, 2017
Monday Jun 12, 2017
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: ODI upsets, a bigger Oval, a resignation letter and Joe Root's facial hair.
"I had a couple of beers and was looking at Joe Root, particularly at his chin."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'47): The History of Streaking
"He decided with his spare hand to give this young gentleman a wrap around the buttocks with his bat."
THE REVIEW (23'29): A Bat, A Ball and A Boy
“The bowling machine is a real Heath Robinson-esque contraption with a propeller that looks like it would be capable of taking off."
Recorded on 11/6/17