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Tailenders

Greg James, Jimmy Anderson and Felix White take an alternative (and sometimes musical) look at cricket...

Podcast · By BBC Radio 5 Live · English · Official site

Indexed episodes, last 90 days
11
Latest publication
Sep 17, 2026
Audience
Apple #184 · US
Earliest in this view
Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    Kate Cross: I had a dream that I couldn’t have dreamt of. (opens the original)

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    This week we’re joined by one of our favourite cricketers Kate Cross, who announced her retirement from the game earlier in the summer. She looks back at her playing highlights, how she got into the game, how women's cricket has changed and what’s next for her. Plus can she survive Mattchin’s latest Quiz ‘ Cross Examination - 24 minutes in Police Custody’ which is based around some of the more ‘unusual’ parts of her career?

  2. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    Does Joe Root shave one arm? (opens the original)

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    In Correspondence of Uncertainty this week… throwing the Babar out with the Bathwater, Mistaken Maccabees, and the big question of Joe Root’s possibly shaven right arm. Listen to the end to hear the England captain’s right of reply. Plus Issy Wong gets a fifer whilst keeping on top of her lawn, and Mattchin’s quiz results in upheaval for both England and Gloucestershire.

  3. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    Emergency Podcast: What’s more than wholesale? (opens the original)

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    For once the emergency isn’t an English one… Aatif Nawaz joins us as Pakistan send home nine of their touring party before the third and final test at Edgbaston. Flights have been booked for seven players and two coaches, including their head coach. Aatif is here to ask the big questions… Where’s the accountability? Who sacks the sackers? What about dinner with the King? Will Ghazi Ghori, gatecrasher of last week’s episode, now be keeping wicket? Plus Richard Thompson, Roy Hodgson, Sir John Majo

  4. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    Broad and Anderson (opens the original)

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    A bonus episode featuring the greatest bowling partnership of all time - Stuart Broad and Sir Jimmy Anderson. Ahead of the unveiling of a portrait of the bowling greats, the Tailenders assembled in the Pavilion at Lord's to discuss the art of bowling, life after test match cricket, what next for the current England team and why they worked so well as a bowling partnership. Plus we get the lowdown on what it was like to paint the portrait from artist Jamie Routley.

  5. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    Saving Britain’s Nightclubs (opens the original)

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    In 2025 over 400 nightclubs and late night venues in the UK closed down but help is at hand in the form of the England men's cricket team who appear to be on a mission to keep these establishments open. Plus England v Pakistan review/preview, no northern Ashes men's test matches, the Mystery Chord and joy and pain for Bangladesh.

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Apple #184 · US

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