Bob Harris
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Oct 29, 2026
Jon BriggsHOST
By now, regular members will know the rules.
Jon BriggsHOST
Bob Harris and I played cricket in his backgarden in Oxfordshire in the early 1980s.
Jon BriggsHOST
Bob kept the scorebooks, and more than 40 years later, instead of quietly disposing of the evidence, we decided to build an entire podcast around it.
Jon BriggsHOST
Isn't that right, Bob?
Stephen MartinCORRESPONDENT
The singer-songwriters hail from Ireland.
Stephen MartinCORRESPONDENT
And that music has been described by Bob Harris as lovely stuff.
Stephen MartinCORRESPONDENT
Tickets for the Grey Shop Village Hall gig are £18 and the event starts tonight at 7.30.
Stephen MartinCORRESPONDENT
If you have children to keep busy, try the Halloween workshop at Sage and Salt Studio tomorrow.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Who else?
Mark OlverGUEST
Bob Harris.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Bob Harris is in our corner.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Is Janice Long in our corner?
Mark OlverGUEST
janice is in our corner absolutely janice is in our corner uh stuart mcconing mark radcliffe they're in our corner
Jon BriggsHOST
So welcome to the Back Garden Cricket Club.
Jon BriggsHOST
Alongside me, as ever, is my good friend Bob Harris, whose decision to keep full batting and bowling statistics from our back garden cricket matches in the 1980s is beginning to look less like charming nostalgia and a bit more like evidence.
Jon BriggsHOST
Hello, Bob.
Charles DagnallGUEST
[laughs] Hey, John.
1 HR 3 MINS LATER
Jon BriggsHOST
It-
Charles DagnallGUEST
That was my moment.
Jon BriggsHOST
It, it's what Bob Harris calls a sss moment.
Charles DagnallGUEST
Yes.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Here we go.
Jon RichardsonHOST
This was on last night's Bob Harris show.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hey Bob, always try and listen to your show on the way back from gigs.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tonight I've been playing with Matt Ford to an audience of 800.
51 MINS LATER
Jon RichardsonHOST
800 people you're gigging in front of last night.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Big party.
Jon RichardsonHOST
People coming back and texting Bob Harris.
Matt FordeGUEST
Well, there's clearly, unbelievably, another Matt Ford who's doing quite well for himself.
Jon BriggsHOST
And that's really why we're here.
Jon BriggsHOST
Alongside me, as ever, is my good friend Whispering Bob Harris.
Jon BriggsHOST
Hello, Bob.
Bob HarrisHOST
Hey, John.
56 MINS LATER
Jon BriggsHOST
What was six? What was out? What did you use for wickets? And what completely ridiculous law applied in your garden and nowhere else on Earth? Uh, send them to us, 'cause we're collecting them and hopefully we'll finally publish the laws that the MCC somehow overlooked.
Jon BriggsHOST
Until next time, keep your bat straight, your stories slightly exaggerated.
Jon BriggsHOST
And remember, back garden cricket was only ever a game unless Bob Harris is keeping the averages.
Jon BriggsHOST
Uh, goodbye from Bob.
Nick SalomanHOST
And someone [laughs] I can't remember, I think it was...
Nick SalomanHOST
Was- would it have been Richard Williams, or was Bob Harris already running the show? It might have been Bob Harris, but, uh, they were- kind of welcomed Paul Kossoff and said, "Oh, it's so good to have you on because you've had, you know, you had troubles with drugs and all that stuff." I remember watching it, and he was c- Paul Kossoff was completely out of his brains.
Nick SalomanHOST
He's sitting there with his kind of eyes rolling, and he said kind of, "Yeah, yeah." And they said, "Oh, you're g- you're gonna do some gigs, I hear." And he went, "Mm, yeah, yeah." And, you know, for a couple of days, me and my mates thought, "God, did you see Kossoff on Old Grey Whistle Test? You know, it was really funny.
Nick SalomanHOST
He was so out of his brains.
Terry ChimesHOST
Oh, really?
Richard BishopGUEST
And Peter Grant was on a boat being interviewed by Whispering Bob, going down the Thames.
Terry ChimesHOST
I've never seen anything from Peter Grant.
Richard BishopGUEST
A fantastic interview with Peter Grant, and he had a T-shirt on with, like, food all over it.
Marcus ParksHOST
Yeah.
Marcus ParksHOST
Well, considered a so-called serious music program hosted by a laid-back presenter named Whispering Bob Harris, The Old Grey Whistle Test didn't usually have bands like the New York Dolls.
Marcus ParksHOST
In fact, Whispering Bob had already shown his disdain for the glam direction in rock the year before when he'd introduced Roxy Music as an example of, quote, "Style over substance." And then of course, Roxy Music with Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, they went on and they delivered a fucking legendary performance of their song Ladytron.
Marcus ParksHOST
It's on B- it's on YouTube.
Jon BriggsHOST
And that is what we're celebrating.
Jon BriggsHOST
On this journey alongside me is a broadcasting legend from Radio 1 to Radio 2 via the Earl Grey Whistle Test and several more studios besides my very good friend, whispering Bob Harris.
Jon BriggsHOST
Bob, briefly, briefly, why have you let me lure you into this podcast without a single sign of anything to do with music?
Bob HarrisHOST
I know.
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