To celebrate TMSs 60th birthday, a match is being played (and commentated upon) in Leeds. Agnews team will take on Geoffrey Boycotts; with the two broadcasting greats represented by their respective on-field captains Phil Tufnell and Vaughan. I think I may have drawn the short straw with my captain, Agnew said with a smile. <\/p>\n
TMS favourites will play, as well as celebrities including Jim Carter of Downton Abbey, sprinter Yohan Blake and McFly drummer Harry Judd (a good cricketer, according to Agnew). <\/p>\n
They could have sold 10 times the tickets, Agnew said. The TMS mystique remains strong. <\/p>\n
It is amazing how much this programme continues to appeal, Agnew said. <\/p>\n
Our audience numbers go up and up. <\/p>\n
It is a companion for people: most are listening in a confined space, car, headphones in the office, in bed. Often for seven hours a day, five days at a time. There is a feeling of camaraderie, that we are in it together. <\/p>\n
For many, TMS has been there during good times and bad. Agnew himself experienced this recently. <\/p>\n
My wife Emma has been diagnosed with breast cancer, he said. Because of the nature of the relationship we have with listeners, if I am not on it, people will ask wheres Aggers? <\/p>\n
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