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EPISODE · Jul 30, 2025 · 35 MIN

Making a Masterpiece: Behind Settling the Score

from Test Match Special · host BBC Radio 5 Live

Eleanor Oldroyd takes you behind-the-scenes in the making of the iconic collaboration between Test Match Special and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.This peak behind the curtain sheds light on how The 2005 Ashes: Settling the Score came to be, speaking to the Director of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Adam Szabo, who prefers not to remember the result of the 2005 series as an Australian. As well as Scotland under 16s cricketer and now conductor Mark Herron and cellist Steve Callow. Plus, TMS producer Tim Peach gives insight into which pieces of music made it into the documentary and why.The 2005 Ashes: Settling the Score is available on the Test Match Special feed on BBC Sounds right now.

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