Episode 4 - The Name of a Good Band

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Felix learns guitar and joins his first band. But it's not - yet - The Maccabees. Meanwhile a fresher England team find a rockstar-like figure in Freddie Flintoff. The fourth part of White's moving and funny memoir about cricket, music and grief, read by the author. Felix White is a musician, writer and broadcaster best known as a guitarist in The Maccabees. He subsequently co-founded independent record label Yala! and co-presents the BBC’s Tailenders podcast with Greg James. In It's Always Summer Somewhere he recalls growing up, his mother's illness and slowly replacing an ambition to be a left arm spinner in his school cricket team with the dazzling realities of life in a world renowned band. Abridger: Julian Wilkinson Producer: Ciaran Bermingham