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IN THIS ISSUEFROM THE EDITORFor me, Test Match Special is the true soundtrack of an English summer. Aggers, Blowers and Boycs sharing cakes, jokes and insights with Vaughny and Swanny – just as Bumble, The Boil, CMJ and the legendary John Arlott did in the decades before them. But something changes in the TMS box when the Australians are in town. There’s a little extra tension in the commentary and an occasional edge to the exchanges with the team’s token Aussie, Jim Maxwell. Nothing to break the programme’s timeless spell, just a reflection that on the field, an Ashes Test matters more. Mike Brearley sums up this oldest of rivalries in our interview with current captain Alastair Cook: “There’s no questioning the fierceness when it comes to the Ashes.” And he’s right.…1 min
IN THIS ISSUEFROM THE EDITORFor me, Test Match Special is the true soundtrack of an English summer. Aggers, Blowers and Boycs sharing cakes, jokes and insights with Vaughny and Swanny – just as Bumble, The Boil, CMJ and the legendary John Arlott did in the decades before them.But something changes in the TMS box when the Australians are in town. There’s a little extra tension in the commentary and an occasional edge to the exchanges with the team’s token Aussie, Jim Maxwell. Nothing to break the programme’s timeless spell, just a reflection that on the field, an Ashes Test matters more.Mike Brearley sums up this oldest of rivalries in our interview with current captain Alastair Cook: “There’s no questioning the fierceness when it comes to the Ashes.” And he’s right.…1 min
IN THIS ISSUEClash of the F1 giantsF1: British Grand PrixSunday from 12.15pm BBC1 (the race starts at 1.00pm) Sir Stirling Moss and Lewis Hamilton: two former winners of the British Grand Prix, but who would win in a race? Moss thinks Hamilton might have the edge — “He’s bloody fast, you don’t often get to pass a world champ.” However, throwing the classic 1955 Mercedes W196 round a banked track at the Monza complex in Italy, it’s Hamilton who’s out of his comfort zone: “What we do today is so different with all the electronic systems. Back then, it was raw machinery and raw drivers with balls of steel — they were supermen!” The space-age F1 car Hamilton will be driving at Silverstone this weekend might be light years ahead, but it still can’t hold a…1 min
IN THIS ISSUEClash of the F1 giantsF1: British Grand PrixSunday from 12.15pmBBC1(the race starts at 1.00pm)Sir Stirling Moss and Lewis Hamilton: two former winners of the British Grand Prix, but who would win in a race? Moss thinks Hamilton might have the edge — “He’s bloody fast, you don’t often get to pass a world champ.”However, throwing the classic 1955 Mercedes W196 round a banked track at the Monza complex in Italy, it’s Hamilton who’s out of his comfort zone: “What we do today is so different with all the electronic systems. Back then, it was raw machinery and raw drivers with balls of steel — they were supermen!”The space-age F1 car Hamilton will be driving at Silverstone this weekend might be light years ahead, but it still can’t hold a candle to the 1955 Mercedes…1 min
IN THIS ISSUEnewsDESERT ISLAND TV In July BBC1 launches My Life in TV, a kind of Desert Island Discs for the small screen, in which the likes of Eamonn Holmes, Lesley Joseph, Gok Wan and Duncan Bannatyne discuss the shows that made them. The first programme features Sandi Toksvig (right) who reacts very emotionally to watching footage of her late father — venerated Danish broadcaster Claus Toksvig — reporting on the 1969 moon landing. But perhaps the most surprising pick comes in the programme with sprinter Linford Christie, who says the sitcom 1970s Love thy Neighbour, with its racist language, was one of his favourites when he was growing up. The future Olympic gold medallist reveals that his family would watch it and roar with laughter… LIFE OF BRIAN (PERN) Simon Day’s…2 min
IN THIS ISSUEnewsDESERT ISLAND TVIn July BBC1 launches My Life in TV, a kind of Desert Island Discs for the small screen, in which the likes of Eamonn Holmes, Lesley Joseph, Gok Wan and Duncan Bannatyne discuss the shows that made them. The first programme features Sandi Toksvig (right) who reacts very emotionally to watching footage of her late father — venerated Danish broadcaster Claus Toksvig — reporting on the 1969 moon landing. But perhaps the most surprising pick comes in the programme with sprinter Linford Christie, who says the sitcom 1970s Love thy Neighbour, with its racist language, was one of his favourites when he was growing up. The future Olympic gold medallist reveals that his family would watch it and roar with laughter…LIFE OF BRIAN (PERN)Simon Day’s prog rocker Brian…2 min
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