Best Geoff Lemon Podcasts (2025)

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Coming soon: The Guardian Ashes Weekly podcast with Max Rushden and Geoff Lemon 0:45

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As England head down under to try to regain cricket’s oldest prize, Max Rushden and Geoff Lemon will bring you all the best analysis of the Ashes Test series with regular episodes in the coming weeksBy The Guardian

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Mark Wood driving to Brisbane is the only driving England is allowed 58:47

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Season 19, Episode 19: No, that's not true, they're back driving on the golf course. But we're not going to talk too much about Ashes wash-up... ok, only a little. The wider world is still waiting, where South Africa are dominating India in the second Test of their series, where there are comebacks for Final Word faves Kemar Roach and Dane van Niek…

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Story Time 247 – The best fourth-innings bat of all? 1:21:16

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're looking at one of the great fourth-innings players, and a player whose marks of greatness were early enough that some of the milestones have been less acknowledged. Also this week, a wild start to a belated Ranji career, Geoff's favourite subject o…

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England collapse and Travis Head steals the show – Ashes Weekly podcast 46:47

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Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and Jim Wallace to discuss a humbling defeat for England in the first Test in Perth that ended three days earlyBy The Guardian

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Is Khawaja done? Are England capable of humility? Our Perth wash-up 41:37

4d ago41:37

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The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test wash-up: A two-day Test brings many questions to consider. For the winners, is Travis Head up top for Brisbane after his all-timer? If so, what does that mean for Usman Khawaja's career? And for the defeated, are they capable of the introspection many believe they require to evolve into a fighting force on lively pitc…

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TFW Ashes Daily - Travis Head's day of annihilation - 1st Test, Perth Day 2 27:43

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The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test, Perth Day 2: We thought the first day in Perth was crazy, but the second was perhaps even more so. England continued on their merry way, in terms of game style and in terms of the regular shedding of wickets, but things still felt fairly close given the nature of the scores to date. Scott Boland had his comeback, Mit…

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TFW Ashes Daily - Carnage in the West - 1st Test, Perth Day 1 26:23

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The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test, Perth Day 1: Hooley dooley! We thought that things were going in one direction when Mitchell Starc went on a rampage through the first half of the day, but then Ben Stokes went on one himself through the back half. We are into this series with a bang, and everybody will be turning to Perth for the second day. Pre-ord…

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Will England capitalise against a weakened Australia? – Ashes Weekly podcast 49:33

6d ago49:33

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Max Rushden and Geoff Lemon are joined by Ali Martin and Andy Bull to look ahead to the hotly-anticipated first Ashes Test in PerthBy The Guardian

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TFW Ashes Daily - The green monster is soothed - 1st Test, Perth Day 0 26:25

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The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test, Perth Day 0: We've all been hearing about the Green Monster, but it looks a bit more like a cricket pitch now that we're one day out from play. Geoff and Adam are back together at Perth stadium in an unseasonably cool week, ready for the preliminaries to end. Pre-order your copy of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: …

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The Ashes, here at last 1:25:22

8d ago1:25:22

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Season 19, Episode 9: Adam and Bharat come to you from the back row of Perth Stadium, for the Ashes of 2025-26 has nearly arrived. From their vantage point, they catch a lovely moment with two proud Indigenous men set to represent Australia on Friday. It's one of many talking points from the west before drifting to India's Kolkata capitulation, Rog…

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TFW Book Club - Steven Finn's Ashes Files 49:46

10d ago49:46

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So much of Steven Finn's story is wrapped up in Ashes cricket, from his first trip to Australia in 2010-11 through to playing a major hand in regaining the urn for England in 2015. Already one of the game's best pundits in retirement, this book, written with occasional TFW host Matt Roller, is drawn from diary entries taken at the time and comes up…

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Story Time 246 – Sacking Whitlam, sacking Boycott 1:00:33

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're recording 50 years to the day since the Whitlam Government was sacked by the Governor-General... but what was happening that day in the Sheffield Shield? Also this week, a wild coincidence leads us to the story of another famous sacking, and there'…

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Who are the 100 greatest men’s Ashes cricketers? – Ashes Weekly podcast 49:31

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Max Rushden and Geoff Lemon are joined by Emma John and Ali Martin to discuss the Guardian’s top 100 Ashes cricketers and debate the merits of the top 10 Find the full top 100 list hereBy The Guardian

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TFW Book Club - Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics 32:45

13d ago32:45

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One for those who couldn’t make the launch of our history book, Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics (out now; links below). Take a listen as regular co-host Daniel Norcross steers a Q&A session with Adam and Geoff on the genesis and popularity of Story Time. The audio is recorded live from a busy South London pub where a miserable November night coul…

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The last London sleet before Perth heat 1:15:45

15d ago1:15:45

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Season 19, Episode 8: Adam and Geoff are in London this week, where it's freezing and awful, and the dream of Perth summer beckons like a mirage. But this vision is real, as England are learning after arriving there themselves. We'll be not far behind. The new TFW book is launched, there's more Ashes squad intrigue, and a lap around the world takes…

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Um, dois, três, Cricket Brasil! - part two, The Final Word in Brazil 39:54

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Season 19, Episode 7: We left our conversation in part one at the South American Championships, reflecting on where Brazil has been over the last quarter of a century. This time, recording at Poços de Caldas - the remarkable home of cricket in the country - it's time to cast ahead to the decades to come. For that, England legend Claire Taylor, with…

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Um, dois, três, Cricket Brasil! - part one, The Final Word in Brazil 52:43

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Season 19, Episode 6: When the game was looking for good news stories during the Covid pandemic, we found one in Brazil. Five years on, Adam has spent the week there, and what a week. In this first of two eps, he speaks with great friend of the pod Roberta Moretti Avery - now the President of Cricket Brasil - then later chats with her husband Richa…

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The Ashes squad has landed 1:09:22

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Season 19, Episode 5: At last, the speculation is over. At least, Geoff and Bharat think that it is, because they think this Australian Ashes squad leaves no doubt about what the final XI will be. Also this week, Kane Williamson is not bringing the snacks, James Anderson goes along with conformity, England create some weird tension on the contract …

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TFW Daily - History for India - Women's World Cup Day 34, the final 43:51

24d ago43:51

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Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 34, the final, India South Africa: After two iconic semi-finals, the double underdogs that triumphed in those contests moved to the final chapter of the tournament. And if you thought the Jemimah Rodrigues story was a good one, the Shafali Verma comeback tale gives it a run for its money. A starring influence with bat an…

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TFW Daily - Women's World Cup final preview - India South Africa 27:52

26d ago27:52

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Women’s World Cup final preview, South Africa India: It’s the big one, and it’s the matchup that nobody expected. Both of these teams pulled out astonishing semi-final performances, but who can repeat the dose? Will India ride the hometown wave, or will it all be too overbearing? Can South Africa, after such a disastrous opening to the tournament, …

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Coming soon: The Guardian Ashes Weekly podcast with Max Rushden and Geoff Lemon 0:45

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Mark Wood driving to Brisbane is the only driving England is allowed 58:47

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Story Time 247 – The best fourth-innings bat of all? 1:21:16

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England collapse and Travis Head steals the show – Ashes Weekly podcast 46:47

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Is Khawaja done? Are England capable of humility? Our Perth wash-up 41:37

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TFW Ashes Daily - Travis Head's day of annihilation - 1st Test, Perth Day 2 27:43

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TFW Ashes Daily - Carnage in the West - 1st Test, Perth Day 1 26:23

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Will England capitalise against a weakened Australia? – Ashes Weekly podcast 49:33

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TFW Ashes Daily - The green monster is soothed - 1st Test, Perth Day 0 26:25

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The Ashes, here at last 1:25:22

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TFW Book Club - Steven Finn's Ashes Files 49:46

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Story Time 246 – Sacking Whitlam, sacking Boycott 1:00:33

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Who are the 100 greatest men’s Ashes cricketers? – Ashes Weekly podcast 49:31

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TFW Book Club - Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics 32:45

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The last London sleet before Perth heat 1:15:45

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Um, dois, três, Cricket Brasil! - part two, The Final Word in Brazil 39:54

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Um, dois, três, Cricket Brasil! - part one, The Final Word in Brazil 52:43

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The Ashes squad has landed 1:09:22

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TFW Daily - History for India - Women's World Cup Day 34, the final 43:51

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TFW Daily - Women's World Cup final preview - India South Africa 27:52