THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy revisits his cricketing past in Zimbabwe, and we reflect on England's leadership changes

"The Zimbabwe Cricket Podcast kindly shared my longshot request to find someone who had played in the 1999 edition of Stragglers Week, and Joseph Madyembwa got in touch."

FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'00): William Lambert and the infamous fix of 1817

"It was an unusual game, in that both sides wanted to lose."

THE REVIEW (25'15): Footprints: David Foot's Life of Writing (2023, Fairfield Books, ed. Stephen Chalke)

"The horror of the trenches and the inevitably of missing a catch as an amateur are held in such perfect balance."

Recorded 4 August 2026

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: The death of Bob Blair, and is the Bazball captaincy a poisoned chalice?

"It's the story so good that we accidentally told it twice on the podcast."

FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'50): The Bouncer that Peter Lever regretted

"When I got back to the pavilion I wanted to retire."

THE REVIEW (20'55): The Fifth Estate: Corruption Inside Cricket Canada (2026, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

"Essentially what we're saying is Please don't sue us."

Recorded 30 June 2026

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: The annual RSR Lord's away day

"The Lord's bar's approach towards carbs is really something else."

FROM THE ARCHIVES (08'42): A new cricketing alphabet game

"There is absolutely no way you're going to come up with a Q."

THE REVIEW (23'45): Catching the Light (2026, Fairfield Books)

"It's exactly the kind of thing that could be written while languishing in the long grass."

Recorded 8 June 2026