Broken Oars Podcast

Launched during Lockdown 1.0, Broken Oars began life as a fun, informative and occasionally factually accurate podcast curated by two rowers who like talking about the art and practice of pushing boats down rivers backwards.

You might think that there’s not a lot that can be said about that, but the Broken Oars team (one Southern One, one Northern One) have begged to differ. Aided and abettted by stellar guests from the world of rowing, elite sport and coaching, alongside journalists, subject-leading professionals, and adventurers, episode by episode the podcast has shown that there are as many stories, anecdotes, insights, perspectives and takeaways as there are participants in this wonderful sport of ours (and beyond).

From addressing hot-button issues with sensitivity and nuance (athlete welfare, HP programmes, performance, training, racing, where funding goes, athlete transition, Trans sport) to asking the questions no other podcast does (’Would you rather have Matthew Pinsent or Beowulf in your Fantasy Eight?’), Broken Oars has been described by some as the original and best rowing podcast; by British Rowing as ’the one podcast out of all of the other podcasts out there that we don’t actually listen to’; and by its founders as ’a public act of standing outside the tent directing the flow both in and out while also shaking it all about ...’

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