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Scyld Berry attended his first Test match in a professional capacity in June 1973, as EW Swanton's 'amanuensis'. With his 501st Test now on the horizon – an achievement never reached by any other greats of the cricket-writing world – Berry has watched the sport evolve like no other. Test cricket is a steady stream: England have not had a winter off-season since 1972, some Test series almost overlap with the next, and players span eras.

This is a story about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a story by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is the story about what happened to the team when their glory days were behind them.

’Have You Heard? Stories From My Archive’ ’Stranger To The Truth: The Lies and Cover-Ups of Jeremy Thorpe’. Three episodes in which writer and historian Rose Collis, using her own original archival material as a starting point. She explores and unravels how, throughout the 1960s and 70s, the political and social Establishment colluded with one of its most prominent and charismatic figures to protect his career and reputation - regardless of the damage and danger it presented to anyone else.

NEW episodes every Tuesday and Thursday! When the Chips are Down Podcast is hosted by four vastly different individuals who all share one thing in common: A passion for the game of poker. Andrew "Bikeking19" Pieper plays professionally in Dallas while living out of his van, and Scott "StayWild" plays poker recreationally but is looking to transition to having poker be his primary source of income. Scott and Andrew discuss the past week of grinding and their journey on Thursdays, and on Tuesdays, Andrew is joined by Joe Tehan, a WPT Main Event Champion and a regular in the high stakes of ...