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Duncan Stone argues that classism and racism have held back England’s summer sport for decades
Duncan Stone talks to Spencer Mizen about cricket’s history of elitism – a story that, he contends, has long seen the rich and powerful dominate the sport’s evolution and image.
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Previous episodes
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1261 - Elitism in cricket: a historyWed, 26 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1260 - Medieval masterclass 1: Imperium 410-750Tue, 25 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1259 - Cold war mind gamesMon, 24 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1258 - America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to knowSun, 23 Jan 2022
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1257 - Escaping slavery in the American SouthSat, 22 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1256 - Munich: the real history behind the new filmFri, 21 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1255 - The Gothic: from Dracula to The ShiningWed, 19 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1254 - Women of the Rothschild dynastyTue, 18 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1253 - Queen Victoria’s spy networkMon, 17 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1252 - Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to knowSun, 16 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1251 - How the Beatles were in tune with 60s BritainSat, 15 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1250 - Shining new light on medieval EuropeFri, 14 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1249 - A murder mystery in 19th-century DublinWed, 12 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1248 - Trading and crusading in the Middle AgesTue, 11 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1247 - The Demerara slave uprisingMon, 10 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1246 - The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to knowSun, 09 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1245 - Ancient Greek scientific thinkingSat, 08 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1244 - Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guideFri, 07 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1243 - Women who served in WW2Wed, 05 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1242 - A forgotten witch hunt in New EnglandTue, 04 Jan 2022
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1241 - Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart EnglandMon, 03 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1240 - The Jacobites: everything you wanted to knowSun, 02 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1239 - History’s greatest mysteries: what caused the medieval ‘dancing plague’?Sat, 01 Jan 2022 - 0h
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1238 - History’s greatest mysteries: why did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?Fri, 31 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1237 - History’s greatest mysteries: was the Trojan War fact or fiction?Wed, 29 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1236 - History’s greatest mysteries: what happened to the Roman Ninth Legion?Tue, 28 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1235 - History’s greatest mysteries: Agatha Christie disappearsMon, 27 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1234 - The state of history in 2021Sun, 26 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1233 - Christmas feasts: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdityFri, 24 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1232 - Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2Wed, 22 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1231 - Pearl Harbor episode 5: Chaos unleashedTue, 21 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1229 - The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles IMon, 20 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1228 - Fascism: everything you wanted to knowSun, 19 Dec 2021 - 0h
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1227 - Yugoslavia: the beginning of the endSat, 18 Dec 2021
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1226 - Christmas feasts: Victorian merrymakingFri, 17 Dec 2021
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1225 - Triumph against the odds: the 1821 Greek RevolutionWed, 15 Dec 2021
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1224 - Pearl Harbor episode 4: The day of the attackTue, 14 Dec 2021
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1223 - England’s last witchesMon, 13 Dec 2021
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1222 - Hadrian’s Wall: everything you wanted to knowSun, 12 Dec 2021
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1221 - Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish & tortoisesSat, 11 Dec 2021
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1220 - Christmas feasts: Georgian eleganceFri, 10 Dec 2021
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1219 - How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990sWed, 08 Dec 2021
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1218 - Pearl Harbor episode 3: Countdown to the raidTue, 07 Dec 2021
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1217 - Pearl Harbor episode 2: America on the eve of warTue, 07 Dec 2021
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1216 - Sex lives of medieval peopleMon, 06 Dec 2021
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1215 - The Great Depression: everything you wanted to knowSun, 05 Dec 2021
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1214 - Searching for WW1’s fallen soldiersSat, 04 Dec 2021
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1213 - Christmas feasts: Medieval & Tudor revelryFri, 03 Dec 2021
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1212 - Pearl Harbor episode 1: A gathering storm in JapanWed, 01 Dec 2021
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1211 - Colour: a human historyTue, 30 Nov 2021
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