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Yes, It's The Ashes

Yes, It's The Ashes

  • Radio panel show
  • BBC Radio 5 Live
  • 2009
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

A panel show from Radio Five Live based around the sport of cricket. Andy Zaltzman hosts, with the help of Paul Sinha. Stars Andy Zaltzman, Paul Sinha, John Oliver, Justin Hamilton and Pat Murphy

Key details

Genre
Panel Show
Broadcast
2009
Channel
BBC Radio 5 Live
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Stars
Andy Zaltzman, Paul Sinha, John Oliver, Justin Hamilton and Pat Murphy
Producer
Chris Skinner
Company

Yes, It's The Ashes is a show which took a comic angle on the 2009 summer of cricket as it unfolded.

The show was hosted by Andy Zaltzman, a self-confessed 'cricket nut' (diagnosed as being unhealthily obsessed by cricket shortly after birth). He was assisted and goaded in finding comedic insight and general absurdity in the game by a team of equally fanatical cricket guests and the show's regular assistant and fellow cricket fan Paul Sinha.

At the time Zaltzman commented: "I can't think of a better time to be doing a series about the 2009 Ashes than in July and August 2009. Nor a better place to be doing it than 5 Live. The show will be packed with jokes and cover every conceivable angle of England's attempt to regain the urn which they so unluckily lost 5-0 in 2006-07. I guarantee there will never have been a 2009 Ashes show like it."

Yes It's The Ashes brought some of the liveliest comic voices in the business together to dissect the key issues of Summer 09: how good is Freddie's alarm clock? Will Number 10 need to invest in a portaloo? And will Billy Bowden's interestingly shaped finger wag for England?

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 4th July 2009 at 11am on BBC Radio 5 Live
All previous repeats
  • Saturday 25th July 2009 at 7:00pm on Five Live - Episode 4
  • Sunday 5th July 2009 at 6:00pm on Five Live - Episode 1

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