Season 1, Ep 1: We're finally there! Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word, this is episode No1.
London 2015, with our new Ashes podcast project not signed off in time to cover the first Test in Cardiff, we got started after the second Test at Lord's. Australia had been beaten badly in the first match, only to take the next when Mitchell Johnson went on the last of his magical sprees with the ball. Emma John, then of the Observer, and Phil Walker, then of All Out Cricket, were our guests in a conversation that sprawled way past our instructed running time, and was a lot of fun on the way. A style was set...
This season was originally recorded for the ABC - this is an extended edition restoring original material.

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