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Cricket was spread by England through its Colonies. But it needed stars like WG Grace to make it popular enough to become a spectator sport. The England-Australia rivalry led to the Ashes Trophy and containing Aussie star, Don Bradman, led to the infamous Bodyline series between the two sides.

Laurent Marsick propose sa sélection de livres jeunesse pour les vacanciers : "Neb" de Caroline Solé (éditions Medium l'école des loisirs), un jeu vidéo diabolique et un nouveau héros jeunesse "Uki" (un lapin aux pouvoirs extraordinaires) de Kieran Larwood publié chez Gallimard Jeunesse. Invités prestigieux, coups de cœur, critiques, reportages, interviews : "Laissez-Vous Tenter" dresse un panorama de l'actualité cinéma, musique, littérature, médias, people... Ecoutez Laissez-vous tenter - Première du 05 mars 2024 avec Laurent Marsick.

All Pro member of The NC Show comedian Marek Larwood joins to talk about his beloved Detroit Lions, their Super Bowl chances, weighing up where Jared Goff is in the QB power rankings (Top 12 anyone?) and where they may have a weak link plus who the boys see as the Lions biggest rivals to making it to Vegas. Speaking of which, the fellas celebrate the brilliant Antonio Pierce, talk about the Tomlin vs Pickens showdown, pick out their fave Week 10 match ups and of course go off on numerous nonsensical tangents given the genius of Mr Larwood in the house! PLUS Marek takes the 57 Seconds challenge, devises a new player assessment for the 2024 combine, we've got questions from the Passyunk Avenue mailbag & more! WIN tickets to our Passyunk Avenue Thanksgiving Watch-a-long : Subscribe to our brand new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@TheNCShow to be in with a shout! Watch NFL Sundays live with our pals at Passyunk Avenue. Book here >>https://passyunkavenue.com/watch-nfl-in-london/ Check out Nat's latest article for the Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-next-for-the-nfls-expansion-around-the-world-6bp67vj6x Play against your show faves in our Draft Kings listener league where you can win USA Sports merchandise, tickets & cash prizes. Links right here :  http://dkng.co/NatCoombsShow - Listener League Main  https://www.draftkings.co.uk/leagues/nfrs2hi8/contests/upcoming - This Weeks Contests Or enter your team for by signing up to DraftKings (www.draftkings.co.uk) and using the promo code NC Show. Eligibility Restrictions Apply. See website for details. 18+ only. www.BegambleAware.org® The Nat Coombs Show is proudly partnered by USA Sports: the best place to buy all of your American sports merch this side of the pond. From football, hockey, basketball, baseball and much more - there's something for everyone! Rep your favourite teams and get 20% off your order using discount code ‘NCSHOW' today. USA Sports merch for the fans, by the fans. Check out USA Sports: https://www.usasports.co.uk/ Marek's Cool Dudes Walking Club on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@cdwc Subscribe to our Brand New YouTube channel for loads of video and bonus footage from the show - https://www.youtube.com/@TheNCShow Other show socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/thencshow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thencshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thencshow/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thencshow?lang=en Threads: https://www.threads.net/@thencshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the podcast host Saqib Ali is joined by podcast regular Aftab Khanna as the duo reminisce on favorite cricket books. The conversation paves a very candid path and terms like The Sportstar, Doordarshan and newspapers eventually lead the listener to the main topic of books. Both men share their evolutionary stories as young readers and how certain books help them evolve as cricket fans.  The list is a combination of history of the game, its flawed superstars and some misunderstood figures. It is a fun and fast paced episode with lot of notes exchanging on the books and its heroes - Baloo, Imran, Larwood and Manjrekar! Aftab Khanna on twitter -https://twitter.com/aftabkhanna Saqib Ali on twitter -https://twitter.com/saqiba https://www.amazon.com/Corner-Foreign-Field-History-British/dp/0330491172/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?crid=EAL4PHHUD0SE&keywords=ram+guha+corner+of+a+foreign&qid=1677304528&sprefix=ram+guha+corner+of+a+foreign%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1-fkmr1 https://www.amazon.com/Imran-Khan-Cricketer-Celebrity-Politician/dp/000731888X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=10V6MPI907YPS&keywords=Imran+khan+christopher+sandford&qid=1677304587&sprefix=imran+khan+christopher+sandford%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Harold-Larwood/dp/B004GK1K1S/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SOPC0AIXZO1F&keywords=Harold+Larwood+duncan+hamilton&qid=1677304615&sprefix=harold+larwood+duncan+hamilton%2Caps%2C64&sr=8- 1https://www.amazon.com/Imperfect-Sanjay-Manjrekar/dp/9352774515/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7Y9R72RTHB8D&keywords=imperfect+sanjay+manjrekar&qid=1677304656&sprefix=imperfect+sanjay+manjrekar%2Caps%2C63&sr=8-1    

Welcome to Episode 211 of The County Cricket Podcast! On today's episode host Aaron sat down with Nottinghamshire's Chief Heritage Officer Steve LeMottee to discuss the key moments from the 1929 County Championship, gain a greater insight into the lives of Harold Larwood, Bill Voce and Arthur Carr and also debate the lasting legacy left behind by the team in the years that have followed. If you enjoyed this episode please feel free to share it with any cricket fans that you know and be sure to follow us on Twitter for daily County Cricket and Podcast updates!    Get in touch with Nottinghamshire's Heritage department here: heritage@nottsccc.co.uk   Check out our Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/thecountycricketpodcast   Check out our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TheCountyCrick2   Check out our £1 Patreon membership here:  https://www.patreon.com/thecountycricketpodcast   This episode of The County Cricket Podcast was brought to you in association with our friends at Bear Cricket:  https://www.bearcricket.co.uk/

Duncan Hamilton is the podcast guest for this episode where he revisits his award winning book on English cricketer Harold Larwood. Hamilton who is a three time winner of the prestigious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hill_Sports_Book_of_the_Year award has brought Larwood back to life through his maginicent account. Larwood remains one of the most tragic characters the game has ever seen given his relationship with MCC, English fans and the English cricket community suffered a great deal post the infamous Bodyline series. Hamilton talks about why he chose to write about the man from Trent Bridge and how one of the most misunderstood stories in cricket history had to be retold with a fresh perspective. No conversation on Larwood would be complete without the following men - Douglas Jardine, Bill Voce, Arthur Carr and of course Don Bradman. In this episode we revisit some of the key events from the Larwood story which is stranger than most fiction works on sporting figures and helps the reader to fully understand the journey of the fast bowler. We also talk about the paperback release of Hamilton's upcoming novel - Injury Time. https://www.amazon.com/Harold-Larwood-Duncan-Hamilton-ebook/dp/B077Y6DCLD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=10O8OL7EN7TDR&keywords=duncan+hamilton+larwood&qid=1648963867&sprefix=duncan+hamilton+larwood%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Injury-Time-Novel-Duncan-Hamilton/dp/1529408431/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1C8IG3FZ7L5AY&keywords=duncan+hamilton+injury+time&qid=1648963925&sprefix=duncan+hamilton+injury+time%2Caps%2C59&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/One-Long-Beautiful-Summer-Red-Ball-ebook/dp/B09L7XR9N9/ref=sr_1_3?crid=21PO3FC60F8HH&keywords=duncan+hamilton+cricket+books&qid=1648964279&sprefix=duncan+hamilton+cricket+books%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-3  

With so many different roles, responsibilities, skills, trends, and technologies to navigate these days, it can be overwhelming trying to carve out your ideal career path.In this week's episode, Mark Larwood talks in detail about all the various options available to B2B Tech marketers today, to help you understand the best approach for you personally.He covers;Can being a specialist B2B marketer harm your career in the long term?What skills do B2B marketers need to master today to be successful?How marketers can take charge of their careers and up-skill themselves Tips to select the right B2B Tech Startup to work at and how to set yourself up for successChallenges when switching to work in B2B marketing from a Startup to a CorporateShould you apply to jobs if you can't do everything the job descriptions asks for?As a hiring manager, what Mark looks for in a candidates CVWhat B2B marketers need to demonstrate and talk about in an interview to get to the next stageAnd so much more...Market Mentors is brought to you by Matt Dodgson, Co-Founder of Market Recruitment. Market Recruitment is a recruitment agency that connects B2B Tech & SaaS businesses with top class marketers to help them grow.If you'd like to be a future guest on the Market Mentors podcast you can apply here.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://nudgecare.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/harold-larwood-the-worlds-most-unfortunate-cricketer/

On this episode of the Mr B's podcast, Hannah and renowned Mr b's bookseller Ed discuss The Legend of Podkin One Ear and the amazing fantasy books for kids, both middle grade and leading into teen.  Their chat is followed by an interview with bestselling author of Podkin, Kieran Larwood, about his fantastic series that we all know and love. And if you don't know, now you will! 

Kieran Larwood is the author of Freaks and was the winner of the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2011. He is best known for his popular animal fantasy series set in The Five Realms.Kieran trained as a teacher and worked as one of only two male reception teachers on the Isle of Wight.In this episode, he talks to Nikki Gamble about animal fantasy and the creation of The Five Realms.

This week, hosts Ben and Will are joined by Mark Larwood; winner of Farmers Weekly Dairy Farmer of the year award, along with his consultant and Kite Partner; Ben Watts. After another very positive milk market update from Chris Walkland with some notable and significant price jumps, Chris puts aside the football politics to congratulate Mark on his fantastic achievement. Fully recovered from the celebrations but still on a high, a very modest Mark talks us through the technical performance and farm investments, his winning team and what the award means to him. Ben, shares his thoughts on what is driving Mark's business forward and sets him apart from others including key investments in genetics and staff, and comments on the winning combination of a healthy herd of cows and a healthy working environment. Mark also outlines what's next for the farm and shares his insight into key challenges and opportunities for the industry.

Nothing embodies the idea of sport as politics pursued by other means so clearly, and painfully, as the 1932/1933 cricket tour of Australia by the MCC. This story has everything: class struggle and prejudice: camaraderie across the class divide; the attempt of a decadent empire to exert control over its uppity colony at a time of economic crisis; the wonderful complexity of Douglas Jardine who hated Australians from above but was always a good friend to the Nottinghamshire miner, Harold Larwood; the secret illegitimate child of the chairman of England selectors bowling for England in the series; splits in the Australian team based around hatred of Bradman and ill feeling between the Irish Catholics and the Free Masons in the camp; all that and some great cricket featuring some of the best who ever played the game. Apart from the fascinating politics this is one of the best Australian soap operas you will ever encounter. In Part 2 of this podcast we talk more about the politics of the tour and its aftermath with the very knowledgeable Hugh Kirkbride, an expert on the sport and the politics of this intensely interesting time. The Australian economy suffered very badly in the great depression partly because of its dependence on the extraction industries, this dependence was a function of the colony's place in the British Empire so the tour happened at a time of some tension between Australian and the Mother country, all of which influenced the aftermath of the tour. As well as global political economy we talk about the shabby treatment of Jardine and Larwood after the tour, their enduring friendship across the class divide and how Larwood found contentment through moving to Australia in the 1950s, becoming fully reconciled with the country that hated him so resoundingly in those depression years.

Mark Larwood, Head of ABM, Advocacy and Industry Marketing at O2, talks to Rob about how he's orchestrating executive engagement at O2. He discusses the intersection of executive engagement and account-based marketing, the makings of a robust Customer Advisory Board, how to get your own senior executives to commit to the program, the importance of thought leadership, and how he's tracking not just the revenue but also the growth of reputation and relationships to measure the success of the program. C-Suite Marketing is sponsored by Boardroom Insiders, a business intelligence platform that makes executive engagement easier than ever. Boardroom Insiders helps you close bigger deals, faster.

Hey hey hey! Welcome back to this week's Author Interview. In this episode, Kieran Larwood, author of the 5 Realms series, stops by the clubhouse to talk about his stories. Kieran and I chatted about the fantasy stories that inspired him, how his drawings fuelled his imagination, and the joy at winning the Blue Peter Award Kieran was so fantastic to have on the show and we are very grateful he was able to join us on the show. Enjoy! ***COMPETITION*** If you want to be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of Pokin One-Ear, then head over to Twitter and follow @BigKidsBookClub. Send us a tweet using the hashtag #PodkinComp and help us name our new magic weapon for Podkin to use to take on the Gorm! (UK residents only) The competition closes midnight on 8th January.

In this week's episode, B2B Marketing's Joel Harrison sits down with Mark Larwood to discuss all things ABM. Leading up to our ABM Conference 2020, they get into how ABM plays a role in the B2B world today, especially during the Coronavirus.

In this bonus episode veteran John Hamilton describes shooting down a Stuka before being rescued from the beach at Dunkirk. He also details the extraordinary fitness regime he still maintains despite being 101 years old. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Award-winning authors Patrice Lawrence and Kieran Larwood join Katherine and Louise in the studio to discuss three new children's books. Plus Cheryl Moscowitz interviews the five young poets featured in the anthology Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry.

Non-invasive prenatal testing is becoming more common and cost effective.  It detects more than 99% of fetuses with Trisomy 21, and more than 95% of fetuses with Trisomy 18, Trisomy 13 or abnormalities of sex chromosomes. These are much better detection rates than we observe with conventional first trimester screening for these trisomies (85% for trisomy 21, 50% for trisomy 18, and 50% for trisomy 13)   Further reading: https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2014/july/noninvasive-prenatal-testing/

On December 1 2017 the cervical screening program changes from the current pap smears to HPV testing with a change in frequency and follow up.  Join gynaecologist Dr Kelvin Larwood and I having a casual yarn over the new guidelines.  

Cody is joined by comic and host of OUTCHICAGO Scott Duff and comedian and returning champion Casey Larwood to finally deal with our inner, outer, and inbetweener demons. Learn how to butch up your son so he'll stop having those girly "feelings" and also one chapter about your daughter who you don't make eye contact with anyway because of Eve. You can find the book on Amazon and on the bookshelf of that friend of yours from high school who always wanted kids but didn't really know what that meant, they just viewed it as a societal pressure and a cute accessory. You know, like a mortgage puppy or an office job handbag. 'A Parents Guide to Preventing Homosexuality' by Joseph Nicolosi, PhD {& Linda Ames Nicolosi}   Homosexuality. Is it learned, biological…or both?   The answer to this question deeply concerns parents. They want to know how they can best raise their children. Many would have us believe that nothing can be done to foster the development of healthy gender identity and heterosexual orientation in children. But the clinical experience of Dr. Nicolosi and others, along with a careful look at the professional literature, indicates otherwise. (*HOO BOY*)   Show Notes:   Previous Episodes: 76. ‘How Green Were the Nazis’ w/ Casey Larwood & Abe Rabinowitz   Currently Reading:   Cook Books 'The Handsmaid's Tale' by Maragaret Atwood Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl   Topics: It Gets Better, But I'm a Cheerleader, teaching, veganism, childhood, pseudoscience, The Gay Agenda, Maxim, gender roles, opera canes, piers, CATS.   Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!   WEBSITE: http://Tomefoolery.com   STORE: http://squareup.com/market/CodyMelcherEsq   SUPPORT our PATREON: http://patreon.com/CodyMelcherEsq   FAN GROUP: http://www.facebook.com/groups/Tomefoolery

Cody is joined by comedians Casey Larwood and Abe Rabinowitz to take a moment for the environment... and Nazis. You know, the usual. You can get your own copy of the book on Amazon or at your local weird university library. Topics covered include: Illustrated Classics, Gail Simone, Of Mice and Men, reading adulthood, the Celts, Manifest Destiny, Politics!, brown and green energy, landscaping and genocide, racism, repeating history, murder???, Glenn Beck. 'How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich' by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier (Editor), Mark Cioc (Editor), Thomas Zeller (Editor) The Nazis created nature preserves, contemplated sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis? is the first book to examine the ideology and practice of environmental protection in Nazi Germany. Environmentalists and conservationists in Germany welcomed the rise of the Nazi regime with open arms, for the most part, and hoped that it would bring about legal and institutional changes. However, environmentalists soon realized that the rhetorical attention that they received from the regime did not always translate into action. By the late 1930s, nature and the environment became less pressing concerns as Nazi Germany prepared and executed its extensive war. Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books:@Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes! WEBSITE: http://Tomefoolery.com STORE: http://squareup.com/market/CodyMelcherEsq SUPPORT our PATREON: http://patreon.com/CodyMelcherEsq

Kyle Kinane, Zabeth Russell, Angela Barnes and Marek Larwood join host, Dave Holmes topical quizzing, guessing whether a list of things are a new "Uber For..." or Summer Festival Indie Band and tearing down The Queen and Meryl Streep with almost as horrendous consequences. Kyle Kinane wants to plug his up-coming gigs and recommends (MaxFunster) Bucky Sinister's new book Black Hole. Zabeth Russell wants to plug her show Middle Seat at Hollywood's Pack Theatre on March 15th and recommends Molly Hawkey's Bachelor Videos. Angela Barnes wants to plug her live show Come As You Are at London's Soho Theatre in April. Marek Larwood wants to plug the sport he made up and has lost almost £2000 on, Volfsball and his Dad's online hanging basket businessBestHangingBaskets.com. And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show, The Friday Forty at LA’s Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month. Dave new memoir Party of One is out soon. You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter. Written by Sarah Morgan and Asterios Kokkinos, recorded at MaxFunHQ in LA and GuiltFreePost in London, produced by Jennifer Marmor and Colin Anderson.

Nat, Mike and Dan are back from the festive season feeling fired up and ready to dish it out; Dan especially as Mike calls him on the amount he talk about cacapoopoopeepee. Turns out it's quite a lot. Helping them deal with this and making his long-awaited return is the all-pro Qaurterback and man wth one week to live, Marek Larwood. In other news: The BBC messed up the new year fireworks; Marek will sleep with all three members of Haim but not one at a time; various joke opportunities are missed, other ones which should have been aren't; Dan's getting ready to run the London marathon and has succumbed to the sickness of being unable to stop talking about it; films have been watched and that takes up much of the first 18 minutes so if you just want sports, that's where to skip to; speaking of sports, loads of that has happened since we were last in the studio, so much that I couldn't possibly list it here - listen to find out; great stuff from the Bodeans Mailbag, an epic game to start the year with and much, much more...

In honour of Nat's birthday HdP has brought in the most sugar-laden cake possible and booze to wash it down. Surely this can't affect the way the gang tackle the show? Luckily they've got Marek Larwood in to keep them under control... In other news: Nat does 'jobs' with Dennis Wise - Dan correctly assumes it's a sawn-off-and-wheels sort of job; Marek is filming a prank show in one of Britain's roughest cities but has survived so far; Dan talks films; Nat talks Film Fandango (cheers again Marek); Tebow is STILL a Patriot! He;’s completed 5 of 19 passes for 55 yards but he’s still on the squad list as it gets slimmed to 77. "I'm rooting for (Tebow) and I'm in his corner, but I have the privilege of letting Bill make those decisions,” says Robert Kraft; Week three of the pre season came and went – the battle of New York ended with a Jets win in overtime; Tony Romo threw two TD and the Hard Knocks cameras captured James Harrison beating everyone at arm wrestling; Margus Hunt calimed that everyone in his native Estonia ate nothing but “straight up growth hormone”; Pavel Datsyuk, Red Wings ledge, when asked what he though of Russia’s new spate of homohpboic laws responded: “I am orthodox and that says it all”. This was taken as meaning he hated homsoexuals, whichy caused a Twitter meltdown and a demand that he apologises. So far he has not done so; Miami Heat coach, Erik Spoelstra decided to go and drop some knowledge on the Seattle Seahawks this week. Players including Russell Wilson watched dumfounded as he turned up to the Hawks training camps: "Just having him here in front of the team and just having him in meetings with us and having him out here in practice is an unbelievable experience for everybody,"; Dan brings an amazing Jive Talking game; loads of Bodeans Mailbag action and much, much more...

We done made another live show! For those who were there, you know what triumphs there were and what disasters, what joys and what sorrows, what technical glitches and what further technical glitches... Aaaanyway, here's a very lightly tweaked recording of the show for you with Nat, Mike, Dan and Marek doing their best to defeat the audience in a series of challenges, along with a bonus track at the end featuring the enormously funny James Loveridge and our very own Dan Louw. Back in the saddle for weekly 'Carnage goodness next week as we roll into preseason.

Nat, Mike and Dan have returned to Camden and it only takes them 45 seconds before the arguments start. Luckily, Marek Larwood is back from his run at the Edinburgh Festival and he gets it even earlier... In other news: Preseason is over! It meant something, promise...; regular season is very nearly here and Nat and Mike will be bringing it to you not just here but on Channel 4; biggest preseason losers were Tebow and Sanchez; the Giants are a bunch of bullys; Dan was there when Vick got bullied and heard something that hte TV guys didn't pick up on; Luck looks weirdly asincredible as he's been billed as; there's some fantasy league stuff;the Red Sox have cleaned house - sending A-Gon, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Nick Punto to the LA Dodgers; the Baltimore Orioles continue to confound - now only 1 game behind the Yanqui in the AL East race; loads of mailbag; competition results and much, much more...

Nat, Mike and Dan value their time together but, like every disfunctional proto-three-way-affair masquerading as a podcast, they need some time apart. This week Mike and Dan have taken their turns in the isolation huts but, as a proper treat, Nat is joined by the incomperable Marek Larood and King of BBQ Andre Blais. In other news: Chipper Jones is in his last All-Star game and Carlson will be covering while Nat's away next week; Nat's got a new column on ESPN, the guys haven't read it; Marek hits balls a long way; they discuss the best quarterbacks for next seasson; Brodeur sticks with the Devils for nine mil so he doesn’t have to meet a new team for the first time in his career; Torres’ concussing of Hossa to be worth four less games than Brendan Shanahan reckoned after an appeal; your questions in the Bodeans Mailbag; what bands would the guys like to see reform, and much, much more...

Nat, Mike and Dan take the show on the road and straight to Bodeans Tower Hill for fun and frolics. They're joined by best friend of the show Marek Larwood, Harry the Producer and an audience of seriously high quality folks for fun, games and prizes, all taken care of by the lovely lot at Bodeans and Coors Light.  

Mike, Nat and Dan are manifestly sexual tyranosaurs but in the mailbag this week they find out more than they may have wanted to about 'Carnage mainstay Marek... In other news: Dan is awesome at NBA2K12; swearing seems to be cool all of a sudden; The draft played out pretty much as expected – Luck first, RG3 second and Matt Kalil 3rd (although Washington later drafted Kirk Cousins, creating a QB competition before the season even began); Carlson eats a banana and an amazing transformation occurs - Mike is the Draft Doctor; The NHL Conference Semi Finals are under way after last week’s remaining games were resolved in game seven; Washington turned over the holders, the Boston Bruins in overtime of game 7 after Joel Ward slammed home the winner...; The NBA playoffs are underway! The talk is off Heat vs Knicks in the first round. It’s 2-0 Miami already and Amar’e could be out of the series after he punched a fire extinguisher and cut him hand! Nutter! Rapid Corrections and Clarifications; more goodness in the Bodeans Mailbag; another awesome game from Dan and much, much more...

Nat and Dan like nothing better than predicting the outcome of things: sports, films, fights between strangers. With Mike still checking in from the far side of the world the guys have taken the groundbreaking decision of inviting Marek 'Americarnage' Larwood on to help them out with their Oscar picks... In other news: Linsanity is over! Sort of! On Friday the Knicks lost their first game since the phenomenon began; then came the real test – Lin and Mello on the court together for the first time; in other news the Heat are hot – they lead the NBA and have won 7 straight; oh, and remember about what Mayweather said about black players in the NBA not getting credit. Kevin Durant got 51 and Russel Westbrook got 40 in an overtime win against Denver; in the NHL the Rangers are pulling away at the top of the East; while the Devils are pulling themselves into contention they’re now 8-1-1 in their last ten; the results of the NHLPA poll are in – some results are predictable – Zdeno Chara has the hardest shot, and Pavel Datsyuk won in several categor5ies (hardest to take the puck from; smartest; hardest to play against); but Sidney Crosby suffered from Yao Ming syndrome – picking up votes in categories he hasn’t even competed in in a year; the NFL Combine happened, things were learnt; Baseball is close - pitchers & Catchers from across the majors have reported - which explains Mike's extended absence; Harry the producer gets draconian; films get discussed; listener questions in the Bodeans Mailbag and much, much more...

Nat, Mike and Dan are getting pretty worked up about the Superbowl but even more worked up about the fact that it was Dan's birthday just a few days ago, the Oscars are coming up and Nat's hosting the Superbash this year. Aside from that it's just business as usual with Pappy Dan making a welcome return and does everyone hate the Bruins? In other news: It’s a Giants, Patriots Superbowl for the second time in four years after both of their opponents spazzed it late on; there will be no Harbowl after Billy Cundiff booted a last minute field goal wide, letting Tom Brady off the hook in a game that he admitted that he “sucked” in; in the NHL New York lead the East from Boston; Detroit lead the West from Vancouver. Many of the teams making the early running – especially Toronto and Minnesota - have melted away Pappy Dan talks about Tim Thomas veering further to the right than he is; Comrade Carlson takes exception; the Bulls are killing it – going to 16 and 3 despite Derrick Rose, Luol Deng,Taj Gibson, and Joakim Noah all nursing injuries; age continues to catch up with Celties and the Lakers – the latter slipping to 10 and 8 and out of the playoff places, despite having this week bumped the Knicks as the NBA’s most valuable team according to Forbes; the Prince Fielder deal is frankly mental; Kobe loses three houses; Carlson knows Seal; your questions in Mailbag; the triumphant return of Yahoo Jeopardy and much, much more...

Mike and Dan are feeling a bit Wu Tang, as is all-time record-guest and fervent Lion Marek Larwood. Nat's away keeping the ESPN-watching world appraised of happenings at Lakeside so doesn't get the chance to become Pleasing Assonance...In other news: Wildcard weekend has been and gone and Tebow has done the jesus thing again – an 80 yard pass from the first play of overtime; busted Ben hobbled to a fourth q uarter comeback but it wasn’t enough; Texans surprised the Bengals in their first ever playoff game; Matty Ice lost his cool and failed to help the Falcons offense to a single point; NBA-wise Chicago lead the East and Oklahoma lead the West although they are a couple of games up on their rivals; America’s new favourite team is the 7 and 3 Portland Trailblazers; Kobe, stung by the recent ranking of him by ESPN as the 7th best player in the league, dropped 48 points on the Suns; Dwayne Wade is EATING SALAD; in the NHL the post- Winter Classic Rangers lead the East, although the Panthers are hot on their heels; Pittsburgh, meanwhile, are on a terminal slump – since Crosby’s latest exit; the West is dominated by talk of the Ducks, as GM Bob Murray has threatened to put the entire team (save Teemu Selane and Saku Koivu); Corrections and Clarifications, Mailbag, another new game from the ever-creative Dan and much, much more...

In 1932 a row between England and Australia over cricket became a diplomatic incident. The row erupted over controversial "Bodyline" tactics used by the English cricket team to win the Ashes. Photo: Australian captain W Woodfull ducks to avoid rising ball from Larwood. Getty Images