Test Match Special - View From The Boundary

View From The Boundary

This is a regular Saturday lunchtime feature during home Test Matches, in which guests from all walks of life are interviewed about their love of cricket as well as their own sphere of activity. In the early years of the feature the interviewer was usually Brian Johnston; nowadays most interviews are conducted by Jonathan Agnew. Lily Allen has been interviewed twice and stated a preference for the longer Test form of the game during her first interview on View from the Boundary. Daniel Radcliffe was interviewed on his 18th birthday at the Lord's Test in 2007 after being hunted down by Shilpa Patel, TMS's long-standing assistant producer. During the Ashes Test in 2009 at Lords Patel also attracted the Australian actor Russell Crowe into the TMS box, while his cousin the former Kiwi test cricketer Jeff Crowe was serving as the Match Referee. Agnew remarked "that we have been joined by the cousin of the match referee" live on air. David Cameron has been interviewed twice on View from the Boundary: once when serving as the Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition and more recently as Prime Minister.

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