The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Episode 4 - The Disrupters
The penultimate episode in our multi-part audio documentary, charting the century of cricket broadcasting, was an awkward one to prepare because it told our stories. Not only those of Adam and Daniel Norcross, but many others too who, in one way or another, messed with the usual system - from cricinfo and beyond. To help us tell the tale for this, our guests were Andrew Miller, Jarrod Kimber, Nigel Henderson and, of course, Geoff.

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Season 15, Episode 1: Spring is springing in Melbourne, domestic cricket has begun, and you know what that means. A new season of The Final Word. Just in time for a fresh World Cup. Australia's warm-ups continue to derail in India, Shubman Gill is set to break records, David Warner is now a right-hander, Dasun Shanaka is sacked as Sri Lanka captain, India's women win a medal at storied Pingfeng, and HCL Technologies are back on the inscrutable case. Plenty happening around the world as September winds to a close.

Your Nerd Pledge number this week:
3.80 - Matthew Nutley

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Episode 3 - On TV
In the third installment of our revisit of the documentary series made by Adam and Daniel Norcross during the first Covid lockdowns of 2020 we shift medium, from radio to television. With guests Harsha Bhogle, Jim Maxwell, Mark Nicholas and Dan Waddell, the episode explores how TV broadcasts evolved from humble beginnings into the mega machines they are today.
Along the way, it becomes clear how the relationship between the game and vision has enjoyed an interesting evolution, with the sport challenged and influenced in unexpected ways by what is transmitted into the living rooms of viewers around the world.

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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in a bumper revisit special, have we found the cricketer whose career was most unfairly influenced by accountants? Bring your MBAs. The birth of a legendary franchise, before franchises existed. The greatest prison escape stories from regional Victoria. And have we also found the best cricket photograph of all time? You decide, on Story Time.

Your Nerd Pledge revisits this week:
7.60 - Richard Jansz-Moore
2.90 - Richard Jansz-Moore
210.15 - Rob O'Neill
3.67 - Stephen Baxter
4.20 - Ramaswamy
4.31 - Michael Fallon
2.25 - Jonathan Brand
3.62 - Tim Unwin
2.01 - Richard Jones
11.40 - Chris Dobbins
2.07 - Greg Upon Thames

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Episode 2 - Test Match Special: Our revisited documentary series began between the World Wars, where radio and cricket started their beautiful relationship. The next logical step was to chart the game's most enduring broadcast, Test Match Special.
To tell a tale more complicated than one might assume are three guests who have spanned decades with the programme: commentator Jonathan Agnew, summariser Vic Marks and producer Peter Baxter.
Calling the Shots is by Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross.

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