House of Rugby

Alex and James are joined by the Leicester and England prop Ellis Genge to talk tough upbringings, changing lanes, prison, class, rugby culture, loyalty and concussion. It's a wide ranging and surprising edition of HoR.

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Alex is joined by the former Sale centre Mark Jennings for an incredible, emotional rollercoaster of a House of Rugby Short that begins in Namibia and ends up in a prison cell in Manchester. A life spent hiding bullying, drug addiction, alcohol problems, childhood PTSD, dark depression and worse, all the while playing 90 times for the Sharks in the Premiership. And the trigger point for all this self-harm is perhaps the biggest tragedy of all. This is a very special listen.

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Alex is joined by Jeremy Drake, club captain and starting hooker for one of the most unique rugby clubs in the world. Wakatipu sits just under the southern alps on New Zealand's South Island. Its squad is made up of locals and tourists, many of whom play whilst they're on holiday or working in the local ski resorts, and their numbers have included former All Blacks captain Justin Marshall and his international teammate and current Highlanders centre Michael Collins. Take a trip to the other side of the world to find out a little more about what makes Kiwi rugby so special in our latest House of Rugby Short.

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Alex and Hask are joined by England’s most capped scrum-half of all-time, Mr Ben Youngs, to discuss England, Lions, Leicester and Eddie Jones’ trainer collection.

Denied his 100th cap when England’s trip to Rome was postponed in March, Ben and Hask look ahead to rugby’s return, discuss how to to deal with less than friendly correspondence from fans and recall their first meeting with Eddie Jones.

And Ben tells the incredible story of how he missed the Lions tour in 2017 to be with his brother Tom and his wife Tiffany as she made a miraculous recovery after being told her cancer was terminal.

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Lee McKenzie is joined by Adam Jones and Sean O’Brien to reflect on the opening weekend of the Six Nations. They chat about the response to Billy Burns last minute mistake for Ireland, how training ground bust-ups are just part of rugby and whether Italy deserve their place in the Six Nations. Luke Cowan-Dickie joins us from inside the England camp and Dragons wing Ashton Hewitt discusses the controversy over players taking or not taking the knee at Twickenham and whether rugby is doing enough in the fight against racism.

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