Best Geoff Lemon Podcasts (2025)

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Story Time 240 – Free Fred Tate 1:14:55

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's time to right another cricketing wrong. You may not have heard of Fred Tate, or you may, but for over 120 years now he has been the subject of grave injustice in how his story is told. Let's make a change, and set Fred free. Also this week, we once …

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India-Pakistan cricket relations reach a new low 1:10:01

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Season 18, Episode 32: Despite all the political posturing, India and Pakistan are still playing each other in tournaments, currently the Asia Cup. But never before have the cricketers been used as an arm of government as extensively and explicitly as now. Also this week, domestic cricket starts in Australia weirdly early with the Dean Jones Cup, a…

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Story Time 239 – The Percy Fender Stratocaster 1:30:03

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we start with a heavy-hitting pledge looking at one of cricket's heaviest stories, and whether it's worth at least recasting some naming conventions. Also this week, the day that Percy Fender went nuts, the rivals that still don't count, the Swiss Army K…

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TFW Book Club - Gilbert Jessop’s mysterious ton, with Simon Wilde 45:41

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Shrouded in myth and mystery, Gilbert Jessop’s 76-ball century is an English cricket record that has stood since 1902. Renowned cricket journalist and historian Simon Wilde has attempted to capture the celebratory mood of the nation that was the backdrop to Jessop’s stunning knock. With the brutal Boer War having ended and a new Monarch in place, i…

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Australia launches a World Cup spin juggernaut 58:19

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Season 18, Episode 31: As they ready for their warm-up series ahead of the Women's World Cup, Australia's squad is out and it is a formidable collection of cricketers. Can anybody go with them? Meanwhile, Dane van Niekerk reverses her retirement for South Africa aged 32, while N Srinivasan mounts a comeback to run Chennai Super Kings at 80, and he'…

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Story Time 238 – David Bowie meets Matthew Wade 1:31:43

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff start off with a tale full of incident but plenty of heaviness, before moving on to one of the least expected rises to prominence in one of the most memorable matches of all. Also this week, the cultural place of the humble avocado, the br…

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Captain Cummins a chance to miss the Ashes 1:25:08

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Season 18, Episode 30: Last week we asked whether Australia had a depth problem with fast bowling. A week later, it's suddenly more likely that they might, with Pat Cummins under observation after back soreness that could presage a stress fracture. If the Australian skipper and strike bowler is not fit for a home Ashes, suddenly everything changes.…

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Story Time 237 – Father Marriott II: The Quickening 1:21:09

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back to normal with a few great tales and a major statistical quirk. We go back to both World Wars to look at the mentor of a frequent ST subject, and revisit our inaugural Dusty Old Bastard. Then there's a true pioneer, and a mathemat…

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Are Australia's fast-bowling reserves a problem? 1:31:20

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Season 18, Episode 29: Another couple of next-gen fast bowlers have gone down injured in the last week, with Spencer Johnson again withdrawn from duty and Lance Morris out for a least a year with major surgery. Is there an emerging problem for Australian quicks behind Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood, and Boland, or does their presence mean there is no pr…

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Story Time 236 – A Scottish cry for justice, with Sean McGivern 1:11:34

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we complete the set, having now had each current member of our Sleuth Group join the show, as we catch up with Sean McGivern in his home town of Edinburgh. There is plenty to chat about at the Carlton Cricket Club - not that one - which explains why we o…

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The faces of England’s 2005 Ashes heroes, with Philip Brown 1:02:05

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Season 18, Episode 28: Philip Brown is one of the game’s great photographers, having covered more than 300 Tests since 1988. Two decades ago, he had one of the best vantage points possible for the greatest Ashes series of modern memory. To mark the milestone, he found each of the 12 players England used that glorious summer to ask them a simple que…

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Our most wholesome day of cricket (and a one-wicket win!) 1:18:23

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Season 18, Episode 27: Our inaugural podcast all-star fundraiser at Wormsley was a hit, with The Final Word team getting over the line with one wicket to spare, a big crowd turning out, and money raised to help kids in need. Especially, find out about the magic day had by Kate Mason and Alex Horne. Join Geoff and Adam in Edinburgh as they continue …

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Story Time 235 – The chase for Skase remains 1:33:09

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back together and heading back to Italy in the 1940s, via a detour to Spain in the 2020s. A couple of long-running clues are finally broken down, piece by piece, as we discover some Mary Poppins history, dual-sport families, and place …

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TFW's 10th Anniversary Special! The lost pilot episode 1:10:05

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Season 18, Episode 26: It is true: The Final Word has turned 10. Technically our first episode was released on July 23, 2015, but July 23 this year was in the middle of a rather busy Test match and Test series, so we thought we'd wait for a quieter moment. It's a good chance to sit and take stock of what has happened, as a quiet side project done f…

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Umpire Bharat is better than your umpire 1:38:30

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Season 18, Episode 25: Top End cricket is happening with Australia and South Africa in Darwin, but our attention is on Leicestershire league cricket where the umpiring controversy of the millennium has blown up. That also leads to the story of how Bharat got banned from a local tournament. In other news, the idea of separate divisions in Test crick…

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S22,E06: 08/11/25 (NOSTALGIA! Ben Folds Five, Billy Joel, Ween, Geoff Muldaur, The Housemartins, Fatboy Slim, Frankie Cosmos, Babe Rainbow) 56:49

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AUGUST 11TH, 2025 SPECIAL "HASTILY ASSEMBLED NOSTALIGIA" EPISODE! Philosophy - Ben Folds Five All You Wanna Do Is Dance - Billy Joel Everybody Has a Dream (Cold Spring Harbor Sessions) - Billy Joel December Theme (December Song) - Billy Joel The Prime of Your Life (unreleased demo) - Billy Joel The Longest Time - Billy Joel Travelin' Prayer (Columb…

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Story Time 234 – Brazil's Smoking Cobras beat the Axis Powers 1:29:25

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an unexpected detour into the World War II battle for the Gothic Line in Italy, via a search for a captaincy Bannerman. Also, the Hindu bridge between India and Indonesia, an underappreciated bridging of an era, and a battle of the slowest slow men. Bhar…

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The Final Word with Benny Howell: ADHD and pro cricket 50:29

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Season 18, Episode 24: The Hundred is here – a competition that divides opinion and likely always will. But what do the players think? Especially those who’ve made careers in the shorter forms? Benny Howell is one of them. At the start of his journey he was an opening bat, but over the last decade or more he’s been the man with a million slower bal…

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Story Time 240 – Free Fred Tate 1:14:55

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India-Pakistan cricket relations reach a new low 1:10:01

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Story Time 239 – The Percy Fender Stratocaster 1:30:03

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TFW Book Club - Gilbert Jessop’s mysterious ton, with Simon Wilde 45:41

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Australia launches a World Cup spin juggernaut 58:19

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Story Time 238 – David Bowie meets Matthew Wade 1:31:43

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Captain Cummins a chance to miss the Ashes 1:25:08

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Story Time 237 – Father Marriott II: The Quickening 1:21:09

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Are Australia's fast-bowling reserves a problem? 1:31:20

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Story Time 236 – A Scottish cry for justice, with Sean McGivern 1:11:34

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The faces of England’s 2005 Ashes heroes, with Philip Brown 1:02:05

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Our most wholesome day of cricket (and a one-wicket win!) 1:18:23

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Story Time 235 – The chase for Skase remains 1:33:09

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TFW's 10th Anniversary Special! The lost pilot episode 1:10:05

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Umpire Bharat is better than your umpire 1:38:30

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S22,E06: 08/11/25 (NOSTALGIA! Ben Folds Five, Billy Joel, Ween, Geoff Muldaur, The Housemartins, Fatboy Slim, Frankie Cosmos, Babe Rainbow) 56:49

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Story Time 234 – Brazil's Smoking Cobras beat the Axis Powers 1:29:25

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The Final Word with Benny Howell: ADHD and pro cricket 50:29