It's our new show! Or, same show, new name. STORY TIME will be the weekend wander through the weeds, where we get into some of the more obscure and less obscure corners of cricket history to find the stories therein. This weekend, boxers and communists who were not jazz saxophonists, what really happened on Adam's 21st birthday, more info on which cricketers have punched selectors, and plenty more.

Our encore interview this week is with Barney Douglas, director of brilliant cricket documentary The Edge, which is on the BBC iPlayer right now if you want to watch it, and Felix White of the Maccabees who wrote the musical score.

So much Nerd Pledge! Your numbers:

4.45 – Rory Denis & Jack Firth
3.71 – David Windram
1.81 – Peter Halton
6.79 – Anna Forsyth & Jono Baruch
1.35 – Owen Brasier & datGriffin

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The Final Word is produced by Jay Mueller on the Bad Producer Network
Title track by Urthboy

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