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Classic View From The Boundary

On The TMS Podcast

Hello and welcome to another classic view from the Boundary from Test Match Special.

On our journey through the archives you've heard from Oscar winners, authors, Olympians

and so many other wonderful guests who have joined us down the years.

Today we're here for a man who's had the questionable fortune of having to watch a number

of the Test Match Special team on the dance floor.

Mark Rambrichash, Michael Vaughn, Phil Tuffnell, they've all had a go on strictly come dancing.

It has to be said with mixed success.

For the first 14 series of the program, Len Goodman was one of the judges running the

rule over Tupper's Tango, Ramps's Rumba and Michael's Mamboe.

And during the Ash's test at Lourdes in 2013, Len popped up to the commentary box and began

by discussing his famous cantaries.

Seven.

As I walked in here, somebody came up to me and said,

how many wickets England still got remained in?

And I said,

It's great how these things stick though.

Well, I never thought a catchphrase, and now I'm thinking, well, it was, there was

no sort of, I wasn't sort of trying to work the Oracle as far as a catchphrase.

It's the way of saying it.

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