Cricket as a colonial weapon

Prosthetic legs, wheelbarrow wheelchairs and guide… children? Those were just some of the assistive technologies and body augmentations available to our medieval and early modern ancestors. In this episode, Rae Gillibrand highlights how bodily difference was understood in this pr ...  Show more

It's now often used as an adjective for anything standard, plain, and borderline boring – but the history of vanilla is anything but. Eric T Jennings – whose book Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean is among the titles shortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize – te ...  Show more

How did a game played by peasants in the English countryside as early as the 17th century evolve into one of the most popular sports in the world? Jon Hotten, author of 'The Meaning of Cricket', joins Tom and Dominic to discuss the origins of the game, its Victorian transformatio ...  Show more

On today's episode we talk cricket as a new report released today highlights sexism, elitism & racism. We hear from TalkSPORT's cricket editor Jon Norman and Kick it Out's Tony Burnett.

Plus we are joined in the studio by Ricky Hatton & Alan Pardew.

A long-awaited independent report has painted a sorry picture of deep-rooted discrimination in English cricket and challenged its governing body to adopt recommendations to transform the culture and structure of the game.We hear shocking evidence from the chair of The Independent ...  Show more

(00:00:00) Intro (00:01:50) Howl Outs (00:07:48) We Just Got Done Watching Cricket (00:19:24) Did We Learn Anything Today? (00:21:38) Parting Thoughts In this episode we talk about Cricket. Cricket's just about hitting a ball around the grass!Thank you so much for listening. Conn ...  Show more