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Word In Your EarAlbum sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening linesIt’s Happy Hour in the Rock and Roll Lounge of News and we’re working our way through anything over 40 per cent proof. Which means ice, a slice and …. … how the F-Bomb lost its impact. … Mick Ralphs and Lalo Schifrin RIP – and chapeau to "There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On’. … the Blush-o-meter! Album sleeves that’d get you lynched in the 21st Century – and that means you Roxy, UFO, BowWowWow, Blind Faith, Tom Waits and Supertramp! … why the TV comedy W1A was the last record of t...
2025-06-2954 minWord In Your EarAlbum sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening linesIt’s Happy Hour in the Rock and Roll Lounge of News and we’re working our way through anything over 40 per cent proof. Which means ice, a slice and …. … how the F-Bomb lost its impact. … Mick Ralphs and Lalo Schifrin RIP – and chapeau to "There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On’. … the Blush-o-meter! Album sleeves that’d get you lynched in the 21st Century – and that means you Roxy, UFO, BowWowWow, Blind Faith, Tom Waits and Supertramp! … why the TV comedy W1A was the last record of t...
2025-06-2954 minWord In Your EarAlbum sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening linesIt’s Happy Hour in the Rock and Roll Lounge of News and we’re working our way through anything over 40 per cent proof. Which means ice, a slice and …. … how the F-Bomb lost its impact. … Mick Ralphs and Lalo Schifrin RIP – and chapeau to "There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On’. … the Blush-o-meter! Album sleeves that’d get you lynched in the 21st Century – and that means you Roxy, UFO, BowWowWow, Blind Faith, Tom Waits and Supertramp! … why the TV comedy W1A was the last record of t...
2025-06-2954 min
Wisden Cricket WeeklyThe 2025 Wisden award winners are revealed and why 2024 was a turning point in cricket's historyLawrence Booth joins Ben Gardner and Yas Rana to talk about the release of this year's prestigious Wisden Almanack, including the award winners for 2025.Elsewhere in the show there's chat about round three of the County Championship, the latest from the IPL, Mark Butcher on finger spin and much more.0:00 Remitly / 0:50 Intro / 2:04 Wisden 2025 award winners / 13:09 Lawrence's Editor's notes / 26:55 Questions / 32:32 Gullivers Sports Travel / 33:29 Mark Butcher / 44:09 Wisden Photograph of the Year / 45:15 County Championship / 1:01:14 IPL / 1:06:21 PSL / 1:07:54 BANvZIM / 1:08:49 Jon Hotten / 1:32:13 Outro💸 REMITLYDownload the Remitly app tod...
2025-04-221h 38
Wisden Cricket WeeklyPlayers voice safety concerns over schedule – will it finally change?The English game was rocked this week after the sudden passing of Worcestershire left-arm spinner Josh Baker. Baker, though just 20, had already made 47 senior appearances for the county, and last season scored the run that sealed Worcestershire’s promotion back to the top flight. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and everyone associated with the club.After a study undertaken by the PCA revealed that two-thirds of county players believe the current domestic schedule is unfit for purpose, Yas Rana, Ben Gardner, Katya Witney and Jim Wallace address the challenges and discuss what ne...
2024-05-071h 01
Mick WallSpinal Tap 2If the glove don't fit, it don't mean shit. Featuring Lars Ulrich, OJ Simpson, Elton John, Derek Smalls, Jon Hotten, Fred Willard, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, and Thomas Cobbly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-0636 min
Oborne & Heller on CricketGeoff Boycott celebrates yet another centuryThroughout his playing career, Sir Geoffrey Boycott made a habit of celebrating special occasions with a century. It makes him the ideal and appropriate guest for Peter Oborne and Richard Heller on the hundredth recorded edition (according to official statisticians) of their cricket-themed podcast. With him is his new opening partner, Jon Hotten, his collaborator on a revealing, intimate book Being Geoffrey Boycott.Signed copies and two limited editions – celebrating Sir Geoffrey Boycott’s 100th first-class hundred and 108 Test caps, respectively – of Being...
2022-10-041h 02
Absorb An Riveting Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Bat, Ball and Field by Jon HottenPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/60595to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Bat, Ball and Field
Author: Jon Hotten
Narrator: David Thorpe
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Release date: 07-08-22
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Cricket
Publisher's Summary:
The Elements of Cricket is a cricket book unlike any other published before, an extraordinary, eccentric guide and charming visual representation of the game, from the weather and wood that make it possible to the achievements of its greatest and most famous players. The book is divided into the three parts that make up the fundamental elements of cricket: bat...
2022-07-087h 16
Dive Into The Powerful Full Audiobook Now, Knowledge Hunters!The Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket by Jon HottenPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411784to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket
Author: Jon Hotten
Narrator: David Thorpe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Release date: July 7, 2022
Genres: Sports
Publisher's Summary:
Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket. ‘Hotten is not just good, he is one of the best’ Cricketer Chronicling the evolution of the sport since its earliest years, highlighting transcendent moments as well as tragedies, Jon Hotten lifts the seemingly impregnable veil from the Laws, batting strokes, types of bowling and the some...
2022-07-077h 16Get Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, SportsThe Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket by Jon HottenPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411784to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket
Author: Jon Hotten
Narrator: David Thorpe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Release date: July 7, 2022
Genres: Sports
Publisher's Summary:
Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket. ‘Hotten is not just good, he is one of the best’ Cricketer Chronicling the evolution of the sport since its earliest years, highlighting transcendent moments as well as tragedies, Jon Hotten lifts the seemingly impregnable veil from the Laws, batting strokes, types of bowling and the some...
2022-07-077h 16
Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, SportsThe Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket by Jon HottenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket Author: Jon Hotten Narrator: David Thorpe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket. ‘Hotten is not just good, he is one of the best’ Cricketer Chronicling the evolution of the sport since its earliest years, highlighting transcendent moments as well as tragedies, Jon Hotten lifts the seemingly impregnable veil from the Laws, batting strokes, types of bowling and the...
2022-07-0705 min
The Nightwatchman PodcastCricket and Literature - LIVE at RathbonesA special LIVE edition of The Nightwatchman Podcast recorded at the central London offices of our sponsors, Rathbones.
Host Jon Hotten is joined by acclaimed writers (and amateur cricketers) Sebastian Faulks and Tom Holland for a discussion about all things cricketing and literary.
2022-06-231h 01
The Nightwatchman PodcastBoth Sides Of The BoundaryGuest: Michael Atherton
Jon talks to Michael Atherton, a man who has held two of the great offices of the game, that of England men’s captain and cricket correspondent of the Times, a unique double, and one that he rounds off as one of Sky’s commentators.
Plenty of former players jump across into media, but it’s hard to think of any since perhaps Richie Benaud that have embraced their second life in the way that Mike has. If he mentions his playing days its with a kind of wry smile, and perhaps that ha...
2022-05-1839 min
The Nightwatchman PodcastThe Spirit Of CricketGuest: Mike Brearley
Jon talks to Mike Brearley about whether there is there such a thing as the spirit of cricket? After all, if the spirit of cricket exists in our physical world, it is as a single paragraph that prefaces the current edition of the Laws of the game. And from its inception, cricket seems to have been open to different moral interpretations. Its early years saw a sport full of skulduggery, gambling and general notoriety, frowned upon by the church and the crown for filling the pubs on a Sunday. It was the Victorians who a...
2022-05-1851 min
The Nightwatchman PodcastOn Tour And TouringGuests: Scyld Berry and David Woodhouse
We tend to take the concept of the tour for granted, yet is it not one of cricket’s strangest phenomena? Devised on Victorian timescales of months at sea followed by a lengthy navigation of distant lands, the notion feels increasingly at odds with modern life. So bound up is cricket with travel that the centrally contracted England player will spend no more than a couple of months each year in their own bed, producing a carbon footprint more like Orwell’s boot stamping on a human face forever.
And y...
2022-05-181h 07
The Nightwatchman PodcastWriting About CricketGuests: With Tanya Aldred and Vithushan Ehantharajah
Twitter began in 2006. By 2007, it was hosting 400,000 tweets per quarter. A year later it was 100m. A year after that, it was fifty million per day, and sometimes, if Tendulkar was batting perhaps, a million or so of those were about cricket.
Twitter, instagram, the over by over news reports and below the line comment offered new avenues for immediacy, but posed the question, how do you report on a game that the audience has been discussing in real time? In an arena when an hour sometimes feels l...
2022-05-181h 02
The Nightwatchman PodcastTalking About... Talking About CricketGuests: Daniel Norcross and Isabelle Westbury
Long before the game was written about it’s safe to say it was talked about. There’s something about cricket’s ruminative spaces that allows room for language, and the language through which we understand the game grew as it was spoken about on radio and written about in newspapers and books. It’s very hard to divide the two, and they have become even more entwined in the age of social media. The voice was once homogenised, a BBC sort of language that nonetheless offered a framework we could all under...
2022-05-181h 10
The Nightwatchman PodcastOn Bats and BattingGuests: Gideon Haigh, Mark Ramprakash and B3 bat-maker Michael Blatherwick
The symbiotic relationship between batter and bat is perhaps not surprising – in a team game, the batter stands alone, and the bat is all they have to hold on to. We’ll investigate how its simple shape, unchanged for a hundred years, has become objectified, turned into epic pieces of wood that are designed, built and marketed to make you feel that you can hit the bowler onto the stadium roof – or in the case of us club players, into the nearby pub car park at least.
J...
2022-05-181h 10
The Nightwatchman PodcastIs Cricket Funny?Guests: Marcus Berkman, Sam Perry and Tim Key
In November 1970, Fred Trueman, newly retired from first class cricket, appeared in Dad’s Army. The episode was called The Test, and Trueman was, somewhat predictably, cast as the demon fast bowler EC Egan, recruited by Warden Hodges for a grudge match against Captain Mainwaring’s Home Guard. The joy of the episode is that, as the viewer, you know long before the game begins what kind of cricketers each of the characters will turn out to be. Mainwaring, Pike, Godfrey, Jones and Frazer play exactly as you’d expect...
2022-05-181h 11
The Nightwatchman PodcastThe Mystery of CricketGuests: Tom Holland, Osman Samiuddin and Jarrod Kimber
Is cricket mysterious? Well its origins are. We sort of know where it comes from – trap ball and stick ball and other games of the middle ages. And people have been hitting things with sticks since time began. Jon and guests dig into the mysterious origins of the game and also discuss other topics such as:
Are numbers the way in which we will finally crack the mysteries of the game?
and...
The great batsman have mystique, but only the bowlers truly have my...
2022-05-1859 minOborne & Heller on CricketGreat cricket writers – and capping the PopeWhat defines great cricket writing? Should it be on the side of “progress” in the game? Should it be more representative of the global world of cricket and its players and lovers? Is there too much of it by louche comic incompetents? These are among themes of a fascinating hour with two distinguished practitioners. Jon Hotten is the author of The Meaning Of Cricket, a collection of essays which illuminate … well, the meaning of cricket. Matt Thacker is managing editor of The Nightwatchman, Wisden Cricket Quarterly’s collection of fine cricket writing and publisher of Fairfiel...
2022-03-1555 minMick WallMICK WALL POD E15Yes, there are many. More than you think. Waaaaay more. Join me (Never Knowingly Boring) and Non-Boring (He Says) Jon Hotten for the lowdown (bring down?) on the worst offenderzzzzzzz... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-01-2048 min
The Rest Is HistoryCricketHow 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 transformation and the inextricable link with Empire.To sign up to the brand new Rest Is History Club and enjoy benefits like bonus episodes, live streamed shows and ad-free listening, as well as membership of the RIHC Discord chatroom, go to www.restishistorypod.com
2021-12-091h 08Mick WallThe MICK WALL Podcast E6:Join Mick Wall and Jon 'The Great Interruptor' Hotten for more Dead Rock Stars. Featuring: Dio, Blackmore, Jeff Beck, Sabbath, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, Wild Horses, Emerson Lake & Powell - and all that sort of thing. Go to Mick's patreon site for early-access pods, exclusive pods, plus stories, pix, blogs, logs, dogs, rabbits, merch (soon), vids and your chance to harangue the old fool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-11-1242 minMick WallThe MICK WALL Podcast E3: Hard Skool DuggeryJoin Mick Wall and Jon 'The Great Interruptor' Hotten for an in-depth, deeply serious, fanatically sensible discussion about the bold new move by those outlaw bad-asses Guns N' Roses: releasing half-arsed new versions of a couple of old reject tracks from Chinese Democracy, plus a couple of live versions of songs so old they drip cobwebs. All said in love. So much love.Get 48-hour early access to these pods, plus other pods, stories, blogs, pix, vids, streams, and manner of evil-doing, all exclusive to Mick's Patreon Subscribers.https://www.patreon.com/user?u=60531281
2021-10-2243 minMick WallThe MICK WALL Podcast E2: Rock Stars Retirement HomesUsed to be rock stars died from drug ODs, plane crashes, assassinations or self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Now they're picking out their comfy chairs. We're talking about you David Lee Roth, Fish, Axl Rose, Queen, Phil Collins, and a few others that don't even know they're retired. With Jon 'The Great Interruptor' Hotten. Get 48-hour early access to these pods, plus other pods, stories, blogs, pix, streams etc, all exclusive to Mick's Patreon subscribers.https://www.patreon.com/user?u=60531281 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-10-1541 min
THE BOXING SHOWBoxing needs to clean up its actBOXING is again being forced to look in the mirror following a BBC investigation into the involvement of Daniel Kinahan and MTK Global’s increasing influence in the sport.The Panorama documentary came days after the World Boxing Association attached a world heavyweight title to a bout that had zero business being classified as such.Both developments are discussed alongside the more light-hearted subject of listeners’ choices for ringwalk tunes. This Week In History focuses on Terry Norris’ 1991 victory over the shell of Sugar Ray Leonard.Book of the week: The Years...
2021-02-031h 01
Dead Rock StarsIntroducing Mick Wall’s New Podcast: Getcha Rocks Off - 1 Tales from the Sunset StripIn this episode of Getcha Rocks Off, Mick Wall and his guest co-host, author and journalist Jon Hotten, as they jump into a DeLorean and venture back in time to the spandex and AquaNet hairspray-adorned Sunset Strip of West Hollywood in the '80s. They unpack many tales from their travels, and explore:the iconic Rainbow Bar & Grillthe origins of glam, hair metalFranki Banali and Quiet RiotOzzy and Sharonthe rise of Motley CrueMud wrestling at the TropicanaTommy Lee squaring off with David Lee RothThe feud between Axl Rose and Vince NeilGuns 'n RosesGin fizzesTwisted...
2020-10-201h 03
Wisden Cricket WeeklyWisden Extra Podcast: An Audience with Robin SmithRobin Smith, one of the greatest England batsmen of his era, a Hampshire institution and, in the words of Mark Nicholas, “A dashingly handsome player in every respect”, joins the author Jon Hotten and our host Phil Walker to discuss the World Cup so far, the unassuming genius of Joe Root, what it was like to face Warne and Marshall, and why he felt compelled to commit his astonishing life story to paper in his new autobiography, The Judge. Plus, hear some expert advice from Betfair’s cricket correspondent, Ed Hawkins, about the tournament’s upcoming matches. Learn mo...
2019-06-1859 min
The Cricket PodblastThe Cricket Podblast Episode 62 with All Out Cricket#Ashes Preview #EngvNZ Review plus 2005 Memories and special guests @theoldbatsman Jon Hotten and @auscricketpod!
2015-06-2556 min