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Hello, welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast, this is Jonathan Agnew.

As you're going through our archive of classic view from the Boundary interviews, we're

not only reminded of the conversations themselves, but also how the guests came to be on the program.

Sometimes it's months of planning with agents and managers, sometimes we're getting such

on social media. Just occasionally though, we'll spot a familiar face in the crowd and

approach them in their seat to see if they fancy a trip to the commentary box.

Well, one example was during the Lord's Test between England and New Zealand in 2013.

When a member of the production team spotted the Emmy and Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis

in the queue for a coffee by the nursery ground. We popped along to see if he had come for

a chat, and half an hour later the star of Homeland and Band of Brothers was with me in

the commentary box.

Hello, Agnews.

Great to see you.

Thank you for having me here. Delighted.

You must be up here.

So something of an ambition of mine, actually.

Has it?

I was just talking to my friend Bradley Adams. He said, have you ever been on TMS?

I said, well, I would love to, and 30 seconds later, one of your team came in and sat next

to me and said, do you want to come on TMS?

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