James Wickham

@OliDugmore Hi Oli. I'm working on You & Yours on Radio 4 - could you email/DM me your email address please? Would like to get you on! I'm james.wickham@bbc.co.uk. Thanks!

England have passed 300 in Australia for the first time since the first innings of the Sydney Test in January 2018

England's greatest ever batter.

I'm a late convert to test cricket but now absolutely love it. I think it's one of the very few things in life comparable to a novel - with different acts, a specific setting, character arcs that rise and fall, the beginning may end up being nothing like the end #Ashes2025

@SophyRidgeSky I've always loved it but I'm delighted to read this and absolutely agree. It's marketed terribly but is a great game. They should sell it like a boxset! The pictures are great but TMS is wonderful - commentary excellent but just the buzz of the crowd the biggest joy!

@Doktor_Jest Hahahaha. It wasn't great. 17.41 cancelled, so onto the 18.11. Which was about 15 mins late, and then went about 20mph across the Pennines

@JamesWickham A new PB!

I know that northern rail infrastructure is a bit crap, but it took me 2 1/2 hours to get from Sheffield to south Manchester tonight. Which is ridiculous.

@markmitchener That's a nice piece on the website about Robin Smith. Thanks.

@PodontheTyne @WeAreTheFSA Brilliant. It's a great listen.

Anyone know where we can buy a trophy cabinet… cheers @WeAreTheFSA

@AdamClery Hugely deserved. I have enjoyed your channel for a while but the latest Liverpool video was a bit of a masterclass in being a decent human too. Congratulations!

Update: we won.

@Simon_Mahon astonishing day's cricket - again

@JamesWickham I'm the other way round and had to pause my TV to allow BBC Sounds to catch up on my phone It's been thrilling however you're consuming it!

🚨PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 The easiest way to sync up and have TV pics and radio comms is to pause your TNT viewing and TMS online / BBC Sounds listening at the moment a bowler is releasing the ball 🏏📻📺 #Ashes #BBCCricket

This is going to be the best 15 days of cricket ever

@SuRoys1 @BBCRadioLincs Good Lord. That makes me feel very old! Huge congratulations & happy belated birthday!

@HonestFrank Hi - Congratulations/commiserations! I left in August - if there's anything I can do to help smooth the transition very happy to have a chat!

***Some Personal News*** After 25 years, I will be saying farewell to the brilliant BBC Sport team shortly before Christmas. So many great memories and a big thank you to everyone who has helped along the way. I’m not really sure what comes next, but open to nice ideas🤞

My first independent podcast is about why you feel so burnt out all the time. It's with my good friend Claire Coady, the founder of The Attention Practice. Enjoy! "Don't worry Sweetie, you're just having a breakdown..." youtu.be/al4g2YdIoKQ?si… via @YouTube

@andycomfort VERY important. Must do it again some time!

@JamesWickham Thanks for the mention and what a lovely article. Sitting in London pubs “on union duty” was very important, however!

For blindingly obvious reasons I'm not really here that often anymore - but also because I'm trying to do more long-form things. Including this: jameswickham.substack.com/p/radio-heroes… Even @andycomfort gets a mention. Must be worth your time.

Here's a piece by me on this. tomforth.co.uk/northerntransp…

Times births column today