Podcasts by Home Roads
Join me, Matt Barbet, as I ride with some of the most interesting people in cycling, and others who like to get out on the bike, on the roads they know best. It's not about the most majestic mountains, or the routes of famous races, but the rides we all enjoy: the ones that begin at home - and it's when we're in the saddle, that the stories start to come out.
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Shanaze Reade in Lancashire on lockdown from 2020-10-28T16:43:41
For all the wrong reasons, Shanaze Reade was once labelled a rockstar. In this episode of Home Roads, you'll hear she really is a star for all the right reasons. Born in Crewe to a white teenage...
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MASH in San Francisco on lockdown from 2020-05-27T20:32:34
Starting in San Francisco in the mid-2000s as a loose group of fixie racers, MASH gained global attention by pushing their track bikes to the limits and filming their exploits in the way skaters...
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Tom Pidcock in Yorkshire on lockdown from 2020-04-22T13:00
Tom Pidcock is the most exciting young cycling talent to emerge in the UK in the last couple of years, but really, it's in the mud and under the grey skies of continental Europe where he has imp...
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Lachlan Morton and Alex Howes in Colorado on lockdown from 2020-04-22T13:00
Aussie Lachlan Morton and US National Champion Alex Howes have been friends since they raced each other as teenagers. Despite coming from different parts of the planet, they're now on the same p...
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Rohan Dennis in Girona on lockdown from 2020-04-22T13:00
Rohan Dennis is the best men's time trialist in the World, having taken the famous rainbow jersey (or skinsuit) for the last two years. His ability against the clock is simply incredible, and as...
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Ian Boswell in Vermont on lockdown from 2020-04-22T13:00
Ian Boswell (aka Boz) should probably still be racing his bike on the road at the age of 29, but a bad crash at Tirreno-Adriatico in 2019 forced him to rethink his future plans. Having criss-cro...
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Grayson Perry mooching around London from 2019-12-19T09:41:48
Grayson Perry is one of Britain's best-known and most-recognisable artists, thanks to his flamboyant ceramics and penchant for wearing even more noticeable dresses. He loves cycling too, and whe...
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Worlds Special: Lizzie Deignan in Yorkshire from 2019-09-22T23:01
Yorkshire's Lizzie Deignan knows what it takes to become World Champion. When her surname was still Armitstead, she claimed the coveted rainbow jersey in Richmond, Virginia in 2015. In the coupl...
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Worlds Special: Cadel Evans in Mendrisio, Switzerland from 2019-09-22T23:01
It's exactly a decade since Cadel Evans became the first Australian to become World Champion on the roads around Mendrisio near the Swiss-Italian border. Prior to that, he'd had success racing -...
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Tour of Britain 2019 Special from 2019-09-15T05:00
Eight days on the road covering the 2019 Tour of Britain, condensed into one, slightly longer than normal, Home Roads episode. I front the tv coverage of the race, but this special podcast has a...
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Phil Southerland in Georgia from 2019-07-18T23:01
Phil Southerland thought he would be dead by now. Instead, his achievements in cycling are an inspiration to millions of others who live with diabetes. Diagnosed as a child with type 1, simply s...
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Chip Hawkins north of Atlanta, Georgia from 2019-07-07T23:01
Chip Hawkins has spent his whole life in America's Deep South, where he founded Wahoo. He is the first to admit that, for a lot of his adult life, he did very little exercise. That all changed i...
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Bob Jungels in Luxembourg from 2019-06-30T23:01
Luxembourg is a small place, and Bob Jungels is its biggest sports star. He is the national champion, so who better than to explore the country with. Bob divides his time between his base in Swi...
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Geraint Thomas & Chris Froome outside Monaco from 2019-06-23T23:01
Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome are both British winners of the Tour de France and both on the same team. This year, now their team sponsor has changed from Sky to Ineos, they both want to win i...
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Jon Snow commuting to the newsroom from 2019-04-04T23:01
This Jon Snow is one of Britain's best-known news anchors - and not the character from Game of Thrones as he has had to explain in recent years, and did once more for my benefit. As well as his ...
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Sir Bradley Wiggins around Britain from 2019-03-29T00:01:26
Sir Bradley Wiggins is one of cycling's greats. The first Briton to win the Tour de France; the Hour Record holder; an Olympic champion in multiple disciplines. Since retiring though, you won't ...
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The Downing Brothers, Ben Swift & others on the Rotherham Chaingang from 2019-03-29T00:01
It's often said that professional cycling is closer to its fans than any other sport. You can ride the same roads, you don't need to buy a ticket to watch and, as I found in Rotherham, the pros ...
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Kenton Cool in The Cotswolds from 2019-03-29T00:01
Kenton Cool is one of the World's most accomplished mountaineers. He has scaled Everest thirteen times (and may well have summited again by the time you hear this episode), as well as being the ...
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Simon Gerrans in South London from 2019-03-29T00:01
It's not easy to go from being at the top of your game, winning trophies, to starting again in a completely different world, but that's what Australian former pro Simon Gerrans is doing. Having ...
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Ned Boulting across London from 2018-07-22T23:01:06
A few years back, Ned Boulting thought the leader in the Tour de France wore the yellow "jumper”. After that initial hiccup (it's the yellow jersey, of course), Ned became one of the faces of bi...
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Philippa York in Dorset from 2018-07-05T23:00
Philippa York used to be Robert Millar, and he was one of Britain’s greatest cyclists. At the Tour de France he won the mountains classification, and did the same at the Giro d’Italia. He took s...
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Simon Mottram in Hertfordshire from 2018-06-28T23:00
Rapha changed the look of cycling, and it’s Simon Mottram who created Rapha. Before, people rode bikes in garish outfits covered in sponsors, and Simon was one of them, even though he didn’t par...
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Simon Warren in Sheffield from 2018-06-21T23:00
Simon Warren has written the book on climbing by bike. In fact, he’s now written several, but it was his first one “100 Greatest Cycling Climbs” that broke the mould. Sitting at home, watching t...
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Ben Saunders on Box Hill from 2018-06-14T23:00
“Polar Explorer” sounds like a job title from the 19th century, but that’s what Ben Saunders is. Fortunately, he’s also a cyclist. In fact, he prefers to be thought of as an endurance athlete, a...
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Alex Dowsett in Essex from 2018-06-07T23:00
The Only Way is Essex is a tv show with a certain charm, at least to some, but to Alex Dowsett, the title is a motto to live by. Most other professional cyclists leave where they grew up to live...
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Nicolas Roche in Dublin from 2018-06-07T23:00
Nicolas Roche was born to ride. His family is steeped in racing, with his dad Stephen a two-time Grand Tour winner. Nico’s Mum is French, and so he spent a lot of time there, but here, he took m...
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Dame Sarah Storey in The Peak District from 2018-06-07T23:00
Dame Sarah Storey is one of Great Britain's greatest athletes, and amongst the World's most successful Paralympians, winning numerous titles in the pool, before switching to the bike and achievi...
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David Millar in Girona from 2018-06-07T23:00
David Millar did it all in professional cycling, the good and the bad; winning races, wearing jerseys, failing drugs tests, and being arrested. Now retired, he lives with his young family in Gir...
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Home Roads Trailer from 2018-05-28T20:40:55
Join me, Matt Barbet, as I ride with some of the most interesting people in cycling, and others who like to get out on the bike, on the roads they know best. It's not about the most majestic mou...
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