Ashes Daily: Jim Maxwell 50 Not Out

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Simon Mann chats with Australia’s “Voice of Summer” Jim Maxwell who is celebrating 50 years in cricket broadcasting. It’s also 40 years since Jim first appeared on Test Match Special. As well as discussing his career highlights, Jim also takes your questions including his memories of Shane Warne and which commentators he’s enjoyed working with most over the years.

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0:45.0	Hello, I'm Simon Mann. Welcome to The Ashes Daily Podcast.
0:48.4	I'll be talking to Jim Maxwell about his 50 years in broadcasting
0:53.2	plus asking him your questions.
0:55.8	So, Jim, 50 years in broadcasting, how did it all start?
1:01.0	It's probably started at school, actually.
1:04.8	I always had a feel for doing what I'm doing now
1:09.4	without ever really believing that it would happen.
1:12.0	But one of my older colleagues at the school,
1:15.8	I was at Crambrook School in Sydney, it was named Peter Mears.
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