It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back in the saddle after the Ashes, although technically this episode was not recorded after the Ashes. We bring in Wisden Cricket Monthly Phil Walker for his Mastermind subject, hear from the subject of one of the pledges himself, and take a long tour of northern Queensland trying to figure out just how far everywhere is from everywhere else.

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1.77 - Louis Jackson

3.33 - Phil Jeffs

30.98 - Ciaran O'Kane

5.30 - Steve Dodd

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Story Time 144 – Right in the Gooch