Welcome back our friends to the show that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside ...   We're back, the original and best rowing podcast and this episode ...   We celebrate the magic of BUCS, the importance of knowing your responsibilities on and off the water and staying safe; why youth is not wasted on the young but why you only realise the aphorism is right once you aren't anymore; why Alan Rickman's diaries are unreadable; why you should keep a diary and what you should put in it; when and where it is appropriate to use the N-word ...   ... and t ..read more

Welcome back to Part Four of the celebration of Head of the River and the Boat Race that is our exclusive all-new Sherlock Holmes adventure, the first and only one to feature that noblest and greatest of sports, rowing.   The Mystery of the Murdered Bow - Part Four.     Called from 221b Baker Street by Inspector Lestrade's urgent summons, Holmes and Watson have made their way by train to Cambridge.     A young man is dead.     Self-murder is suspected.     On arrival, the evidence initially suggests that the facts fit Lestrade's conclusion: Mr Mart ..read more

In celebration of Head of the River and the upcoming Boat Race, the team at Broken Oars have put together a Boat Race special - an all-new Sherlock Holmes adventure:   We give you: The Mystery of the Murdered Bow - Part Three     The year is 1886.     A young man has been found dead at King's College, Cambridge.   Self-murder is suspected.     Holmes and Watson have been called from 221b Baker Street by Inspector Lestrade.     When Holmes and Watson arrive, the evidence suggests that Lestrade's conclusion fits the facts.   But as Holmes ..read more

Broken Oars Podcast, the original and best podcast about the art, practice and people involved pushing a boat backwards down a river, returns with ...   'The Mystery of the Murdered Bow.'   A new Sherlock Holmes adventure written especially for and just in time for Head of the River and the Boat Race.   The year is 1886. All is well in 221b Baker Street. After a long winter, as February slips into March, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are called to Cambridge by Inspector Lestrade one morning ...   The reason?   An apparent self-murder at one of the oldest and most ..read more

As promised, Part Two of our three-part deep dive into those crazy opium-eating loons in their flouncy shirts with their consumption and their poetry.   In this episode, we look at the main themes of the age, discuss how the idea of the new day inherent to revolution manifested in the poetry of the time, but also how a theory of literature, in producing a literature to either confirm or deny that theory, exposes the reality that there is no final resting place or resolution.   With added Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley, a load of French and German philosophers ... and a Roman. &nbs ..read more

Hullo and welcome back to Broken Oars Podcast! As The Southern One wrestles with life and the Northern One wrestles with ... well, life too, while we look for an opportunity to recovene, the Northern One has grabbed a chunk of time to put up another Broken Oars University Episode.   This time it's on the Romantic Poets - on the grounds of why not, it's a New Year, let's get into something fresh and interesting.   But don't worry.   We'll be back to talk about rowing again soon.   So, in this part one of three, we have a chat about those crazy loons from two hundred and odd ..read more

Despite being the world's best rowing podcast (after Martin Cross, anyway) and having had stellar years so far in terms of amazing guests and people annoyed, Broken Oars Podcast have never essayed an end-of-year review.   Well, that stops now.   Here is is, just in time to keep the twelve days of Christmas going and set you up for the New Year. As usual, we throw ourselves into it with our usual gusto, so on this episode, we talk about:   Free speech, the Northern One's alcohol tolerance levels (so small as to need a microscope to view them), how the development of the pocket Je ..read more

In Episode Two of Broken Oars University, Broken Oars Podcast's Northern One explores fundamental equivalences between being a rower, and the discipline, practice and craft of rowing and being a musician, and the discipline, practice and craft of music.   Looking at the cultural location and narratives of both, this episode looks at how we self-identify with what resonates with us; the learning trajectory of both disciplines; the importance of mechanical practice and how that leads us to states of grace in both.   Taking in figures in both arenas from Eric Murray and Helen Glover to ..read more

Harry, the spare to the heir (his own words), has been in the news recently following the Netflix show that he and Meghan have launched. The show has attracted brickbats for many things, including its appropriation and misrepresentation of other footage.   But we aren't going to put the boot in. After all, we all know that it will be Tom George who ascends to the throne when the time comes. He has the hair, he has the erg scores, and he has the jawline. Instead we're going to stand up for Harry - specifically his musical ability. Many have decried the picture of him playing the guitar wit ..read more

We return as strangers from foreign lands with tales of wonder and woe - or, to be more accurate, like two people who've been incredibly busy and decided to use the excuse of recording a podcast to catch up and check that we're both still alive. Are you all still alive? Good. Keep it that way. In this episode, we discuss that most fundamental of rowing experiences, the Head Race. Giving the historically accurate defintion of a Head Race (literally, a race for Heads (ahem)), we try and identify what makes a great Head Race, talk about some of the ones we've done, give shout out and honourable m ..read more