Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
A Podcast interviewing a range of people from all areas of the great country of Wales who have a connection with or a story to tell about the great game of cricket.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 154
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
It's a Smale World: An Interview with Ann-Marie, Sophia and Will Smale
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In this episode we meet the cricketing Smale Family from Newport. Mum, Ann-Marie is Deputy Chair at Glamorgan CCC and formed part of the team charged with winni…
Adge John: The Saundersfoot Scorer
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This episode is a chat with Adge John of Saundersfoot Cricket Club.
Adge made the local newpaper headlines in the summer when he finished being scorer for the clu…
Michael Clayden: Newport Cricket Club's Premier League Record Maker
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In this episode we hear from Newport Cricket Club's Michael Clayden who, this season, became the first player in the history of the South wales Premier League to…
Playing for Glamorgan, Living with Sarcoidosis: An Interview with Steve Barwick
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In this episode we talk to ex Glamorgan seam bowler Steve 'Basil' Barwick.
You can read about Steve's first class career here:
https://glamorgancricketarchives.com…
Haverfordwest Cricket Club: 200 Years Old and Counting (Part 2)
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In this, the second part of our chat with current and ex players and officials we meet Henderson Springer. You can read a little bit about Hendy and his connect…
Haverfordwest Cricket Club: 200 Years Old and Counting (Part 1)
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The collected group of ex-players and committee post holders started by telling us who they are and what they were like as cricketers.
We get a picture of the way…
World Cup Final Umpire: Martin Wale (Part 2)
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In this, the second part of our chat with Martin, umpire with the South West Wales Association of Cricket Association, we talk in more detail about his experienc…
World Cup Final Umpire: Martin Wale (Part 1)
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This episode features the first installment of my chat with cricket umpire Martin Wale.
We begin with a bit of onomatology! Quite a departure for us. We then ge…
Blaina Cricket Club and Taking the Field
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In this episode we make use of the MCC Sound Archive to bring you the story of Blaina Cricket Club.
The MCC project, Taking the Field was aimed at recording the o…
Running the Whole Shooting Match: Ossie Wheatley, cricket administrator (Part 2)
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Ossie begins by talking about his experiences as Chairman of Glamorgan CCC and the difficulties cricket and Glamorgan faced in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
We …
Running the Whole Shooting Match - Ossie Wheatley, cricket administrator (Part 1)
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In this episode we return to our chat with Ossie Wheatley. He finished as a player in 1969 but before that he was already becoming involved in the administratio…
Hay-On-Wye Cricket Club v The Authors XI
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In this episode we visit Hay-On-Wye Cricket Club which hosted a game against an All Stars XI from the Hay Literary Festival at the end of May.
We hear from club m…
Maurice Turnbull: Was He Britain's Most Complete All Round Sportsman?
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In this episode we bring together the biographer of Maurice Turbull, the museum's own Andrew Hignell and sports writer Bill Williams who's recent article about …
Professor Michael Wilson: Oral histories (Tale-Enders and Taking the Field)
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In this episode we speak to Professor Mike Wilson of Loughborough University about his work in the area of oral history and the two cricketing projects with whic…
The Last of the Gentlemen: An Interview with Ossie Wheatley (Part 2)
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We begin this episode of the podcast by talking about Ossie's best first class bowling figures, quickly moving on to his nickname.
We talk about the nature of Cou…
The Last of the Gentlemen: An Interview with Ossie Wheatley (Part 1)
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We talk to Ossie Wheatley of Cambridge University, Warwickshire and Glamorgan. He won a Blue for cricket at Cambridge University in 1957 and in 1958 when he ama…
Christchurch Cricket Club: A Centenary Year (Part 2)
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In this week's episode we meet with four stalwarts of Christchurch Cricket Club who take us through their involvement with the club, the players that they remem…
Christchurch Cricket Club: A Centenary Year (Part1)
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This is the first of two episodes celebrating Christchurch Cricket Clun and their centenary year.
In this first episode we hear from local historian of Ferndale a…
The Museum at the Home of Cricket: An Interview with Neil Robinson (Part 2)
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Neil begins by outlining the story of the stuffed sparrow that is one of the more unusual items in the MCC Museum and one that has a link to Glamorgan as the bal…
The Museum at the Home of Cricket: An Interview with Neil Robinson (Part 1)
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In this week's episode we meet the Head of Heritage and Collections at the MCC, Neil Robinson.
We begin by talking about how, where and when Neil began his affili…