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Broken Oars Podcast

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Since its launch on 24th July 2020, Broken Oars Podcast has grown into the world’s best podcast about rowing, rowers and all things related to the art, practice and magic of moving a boat backwards down a river using an oar. Episode by episode, your genial hosts Dr. Lewin Hynes (the Southern One) a

New episodes: Several times a week
Typical length: 1 hr 12 min
Latest: 6 Mar 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

6 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

Broken Oars, Episode 7: Broken Oars Fantasy Rowing Eight (or Would You Have Matthew Pinsent or Conan The Barbarian in Your Boat?)

Enjoyed this episode? Buy us a coffee, download a training plan, and support us so we can carry on making Broken Oars Podcast, the best rowing podcast in the world. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank You! ----- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Broken Oars Podcast returns with Episode 7 – a Fosbury Flop of an effort to match the impossibly high bar set by our recent guests Sir Terence of Chipchase and Sir Peter of Brewer. (You haven’t listened to Episodes Five and Six yet? Shame on you! Download them now! You know it makes sense. After all, those 3 x…

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E5 · 11 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 9 min
Broken Oars Thoughts Bonus Episode: Jurgengate, Trolls, and the Two Billy Goats Gruff
We discover that having launched a podcast, the world of social media has more trolls in it than the average folk tale, one particularly loathsome specimen having crawled out from under his rock to assert that GB's rowers were all dopers, because they had been trained by an East German Coach in the Mighty Jurgen Grobler - who had and had never hidden coming up through the old East German system, where doping was prevalent. After back-and-forths on Twitter which led to Sir MP DM'ing us to give us the very good advice not to bother with morons, we realised we had the perfect platform to…
E3 · 14 Nov 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 3: Di Binley
Released on August 7th 2020, Episode Three saw Broken Oars Podcast welcome its first ever guest - the incredible, inimitable Di Binley. For some reason neither of us can remember, Dr. Lewin Hynes, yet to be dubbed the Southern One, flew solo on this episode - and does a brilliant job, because, well, he's brilliant. Want the original episode notes? Here they are. ----- A coming-of-age for Broken Oars Podcast as one of us works out how to edit audio; another of us breaks a foot; and we welcome our first guest to the pod: Former owner and driving force behind Rock the Boat, the shop all rowers…
S1 · E2 · 31 Oct 2025 · 2 hr 6 min
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 2: Take Two!
Our second episode was published on July 24th 2020. We still hadn't really got to grips with the whole podcast format thing at this point. We never really did, to be honest. We were having too much fun catching up with each other and talking to our amazing guests. We wouldn't change anything apart from perhaps uploading our conversations to Youtube. We made a decision early on to stick to audio, largely because at the time we just couldn't fathom why people would want to tune in to watch people having a chat together. Still, there it is. ----- In Episode Two, Dr. Lewin Hynes, who would soon…
S1 · E1 · 17 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 28 min
Broken Oars Podcast Episode 1: The Free Wheelin’ Broken Oars Podcast
(Deep gravelly voice): On this day five years ago, while the world languished in the depths of COVID, in a time when there were NO rowing podcasts (other than a few we've forgotten to mention), two men got together to change the world as we know it ... They were Dr. Lewin Hynes, who would come to be known as The Southern One, and Dr. Aaron Jackson, who would come to be known as The Northern One and they created the world's first, only and still best rowing podcast. And they called it Broken Oars Podcast. And rowers looked and listened and saw it was good. We retired after interviewing Sir…
E120 · 22 Feb 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
Broken Oars Podcast : Hadaway Harry
The Northern One reads Ed Waugh's classic life of the north-eastern legend, Harry Clasper.
E119 · 14 Dec 2024 · 6 min
Broken Oars Episode: The Night Before Christmas (For Rowers)
It's been a quiet year for Broken Oars Podcast in podcast terms. While life happened, we only managed to interview the world's best sports physiologist, the world's best sports psychologist, the man who created the on / off test for EPO and ... SIR MATTHEW PINSENT! And yet, it's the End of the Island that's been nominated for best rowing podcast - probably because we didn't get 'round to nominating ourselves. Go on Fergus! As we approach Christmas, we should understand that it can be a hard time of year for many (rowers). We get it. The summer regattas seem a long way away. The test regimen…
E115 · 9 Sep 2024 · 51 min
Better Erging through Chemistry
In our continued effort to bring you, the BrokenOars viewer and listener, valued information, the Southern on has spent the last five weeks mildly toxifying himself in pursuit of a faster ergo score. There are numerous substances that promise a legal method to greater performance and in this video takes a wonder through a few of them and examines one rower's experience of trying them out. But not creatine, that stuff is filth. Better watched than listened to this one I am afraid. But give it a go. https://youtu.be/eiL5tYGEdHc
E114 · 7 Sep 2024 · 51 min
Broken Oars Everything Changes and Technology Changes Everything Series: Turner and the Fighting Temeraire #1
Hullo, Can't sleep? Me neither. The Northern One returns with a follow-up to last year's Summer Shorts series. Inspired by a chat with a medical friend about the advances in technology in their career, your favourite Northern One takes a spin through representation in art. As everything in modern Britain is a footnote to the Victorians, in much the same way that Western Civilisation is a footnote to the Greeks, we go to the nineteenth century to look at how art changed in response to new technology and new social and economic realities. Specifically, we look at how the invention of the…
E113 · 31 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
Broken Oars: Episode 5759. Robin Parisotto, the on / off test protocol, doping in sports, and the fallacy of testing regimens
Did you miss us? Of course you did! We're back with Robin Parisotto, the scientist behind the on / off EPO test to discuss the history of doping in sport, why testing regimens are set up to show there is a testing regimen rather than to create clean sports, and why clean sport will never happen in the current systems. Apart from British rowers. We're clean. Get some! Bowside? Do some work. Strokeside are fixing their mascara. Again.
E112 · 13 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 49 min
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 7896: Lewin and Aaron watch Olympic races and catch up
After the glory and the dream that was our crowing achievement (talking to Sir Matthew Pinsent), Aaron and Lewin return in typical Broken Oars fashion. That's right. We watch Olympic races and talk about them as they're happening and then post the episode after the Olympics has finished, but before the Para Games begins. Oh, and it looks like Podbean took all of our episodes down and dumped them back on the stream so it looks like we were really busy on the 9th August. Apologies, but look at all of the goodness you've missed in the last four years!
E96 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 12 min
The Sub7 IRC GenX Men’s Squad Support Group - Ian Wilde and Dylan Dragswiek.
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! Enjoyed this episode? ------ ----- Enjoyed this episode? ----- Two of the Big Beasts of the Sub 7 Indoor Rowing Club sit down with us for a good old Trans-Atlantic chinwag, about Indoor Rowing, Type II fun, Long Covid, the C2 Cross Team Challenge, trying (and…
E95 · 9 Aug 2024 · 49 min
The BrokenOars Guide to purchasing rowing coaching
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to: https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! This is the audio version of the video we put up on YT some months ago about how to go about and what to look for in the purchasing of rowing coaching. The Posh Southern One looks at - Why you should and shouldn't buy coaching. The Pete Plan The Concept 2…
E94 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 17 min
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 57: Hayfever, Small Regattas, Proper Henley, and Inventing a Whole New Regatta
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- Your genial hosts, Lewin (Southern, posh) and Aaron (Northern, illiterate) returns as warriors of old who have journeyed beyond the circle of firelight to gain the knowledge that men know not wot of and return with it for the general benefit and…
E93 · 9 Aug 2024 · 40 min
Broken Oars Episode 56: Talking Sensibly About Trans and Rowing
Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening. Having previously examined the science informing the debate around Trans inclusion in Women's categories in sport, Broken Oars Podcast returns with an updated look at what remains fast-moving, ongoing and highly-contentious issue.…
E102 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 34 min
Episode 60: Gavin Jamieson, ’Water’s Gleaming Gold’ and the extraordinary life of Hugh ’Jumbo’ Edwards.
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- Welcome back, dear listeners, to the world's greatest podcast about the art, practice and lifestyle that is pushing a boat backwards down a river. Today, author Gavin Jamieson joins your genial hosts of the Northern One and the Southern One to talk…
E101 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 26 min
Broken Oars University: The Talent Episode. Now with Added Widgets ...
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- Enjoyed this episode? Buy us a coffee, download a training plan, and support us so we can carry on making Broken Oars Podcast, the best rowing podcast in the world. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd Thank You! ----- We return as swallows to the…
E100 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 20 min
Broken Oars University: The ’Getting Old, the Enhanced Games, PED’s and Redefining the Win’ Episode
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! Enjoyed this episode? ----- We return with another episode that looks like it might have been hand-tooled for the start of the new season - precisely because it has been. Great changes are afoot in the Broken Oars world. Not content with being the world's…
E98 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 16 min
Broken Oars Podcast Episode 59: Dr. Michael Cannon: Resources vs. Ambitions and Avoiding the Club Apocalypse
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- The world's greatest rowing podcast returns - and it couldn't be more timely. As some of us head back to school (quite literally) and all of us head back to the water at the start of the new rowing season we are joined by Dr. Michael Cannon to talk…
E97 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 16 min
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 58 : Elizabeth Gilmore - On Being The World’s Fastest Indoor Rower and Getting On The Water
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to Broken Oars Podcast! It's often been said, usually by us, that Broken Oars Podcast is the home of world-class rowing and rowers on the web ... ... and we prove it yet again in this episode as we are joined by the…
E107 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
Episode 64: Professor Andy Jones: The World's Greatest Physiologist, The Power of Doing the Right Things, and Beetroot.
We're back once again, the renegade masters ... Southern One: You've done that one. Here we are, the world's greatest rowing podcast, returning once again ... Southern One: You've done that one too. Northern One: You do realise that I write all the blurbs? Southern One: I do. And a fine job you make of it too. Northern One: And you do realise that we're over one hundred episodes deep now. Southern One: I do. And that's why we're the world's greatest rowing podcast. Including Martin Cross. Northern One: And you do know that people tune into us because they expect a certain level of insight,…
E92 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
Broken Oars University: Summer Shorts Series: Getting to Grips with Mr. Kipling
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to: https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! Welcome back one and all to Broken Oars Podcast - the Rowing World's best and most informative podcast (bar Crossy's Corner - we'll hear no bad words about that man. He's a legend). As you know, while the Southern One finishes up a professional qualification…
E103 · 9 Aug 2024 · 47 min
Episode 61: Olympic champion, Xeno Muller - ’Everything flows from getting the fundamentals right: in rowing and life.’
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- We are joined on Broken Oars Podcast by Xeno Muller. Olympic Single Sculls Champion at Atlanta in 1996 in one of the all-time great Olympic finals and finishes, Xeno was also an Olympic Silver Medallist in 2000 and a multiple medallist at rowing's world…
E108 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
Episode 65: Return to training protocols, rowing's growing numbers crisis and ...taking up other sports?!?!
Your favourite comedy duo, and quite possibly the best commentators rowing has ever had on and about the sport of rowing return! In this episode, following the Southern One's three weeks of constant bugs and the Northern One's ongoing Long Covid we talk about getting back into exercise after illness and injury - and no, it isn't what we used to do: grade two muscle tear? Should be fine tomorrow then? Two weeks in bed with D and V? Shouldn't affect my 2k too much tomorrow. Being an athlete is a weird thing. For a start, it's an identity - which means when we can't do the thing that defines…
E110 · 9 Aug 2024 · 53 min
Episode 67: Lucy Denyer on Life, Random American Living and Returning to Rowing at York
Order a copy of 'The Mystery of the Cambridge Bow' - an original Broken Oars Sherlock Holmes adventure written to celebrate the Oxford / Cambridge Boat Race: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ai-jackson/the-mystery-of-the-cambridge-bow/paperback/product-m222pkn.html?q=the+mystery+of+the+cambridge+bow&page=1&pageSize=4 ----- We return! We return in time for WEHORR (what's left of it); the Boat Race; and a summer regatta season just around the corner with the perfect episode ... Why? Because we return with Lucy Denyer - whose Telegraph article on returning to rowing at York recently went viral.…
E99 · 9 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 31 min
Broken Oars University: The ’Everything You Wanted To Know About Coaches and Coaching But Were Afraid To Ask’ Episode!
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- Welcome back to Broken Oars Podcast, the world's best rowing podcast. In this episode, to celebrate the start of the new season, the Southern One and the Northern One take a deep dive into coaching and coaches. With that new season stretching ahead of…
E90 · 26 May 2023 · 2 hr
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 55: The Great Australian Roundtable!
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- I (Northern One), have thought of so many ways to introduce this: The finest rower of his generation is joined by Drew Ginn, Andrew McNeil, Anthony Bergelin and Lewin Hynes to ... You know - that tongue-in-cheek quippy thing that you've come to expect…
E87 · 15 May 2023 · 51 min
Broken Oars, Broken Thoughts: Getting Started - How To Get A Boat Moving.
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! ----- Summer is upon us, the regatta season is in full swing and with both come the merry sound of everyone in the sport of rowing going 'Crap! It's x regatta next week. We need to start thinking about a start pattern ... ' And so the Northern One returns…
E83 · 7 Apr 2023 · 1 hr 27 min
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 53: Peter Holmes, Coaching, Connection and Why the Why is also the How
To purchase a copy of 'Water's Gleaming Gold' with an exclusive Broken Oars Listener discount, please go to: https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/biography/waters-gleaming-gold-hb and quote " BROKENOARS " at the checkout page. This discount code will allow you to buy the book at a 15% discount - and enjoy one of the great rowing stories! Oars Podcast, and your genial hosts Lewin (Southern, oppressive) and Aaron (Northern, oppressed) return ... ... and you'll notice that we're practically fizzing with glee as we do. Why? Because we're joined by Peter Holmes. We are no strangers to hyperbole…
E80 · 24 Mar 2023 · 1 hr 8 min
Broken Oars Podcast, Episode 52: BUCS, Staying Safe, and Giving up the Dream
Welcome back our friends to the show that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside ... We're back, the original and best rowing podcast and this episode ... We celebrate the magic of BUCS, the importance of knowing your responsibilities on and off the water and staying safe; why youth is not wasted on the young but why you only realise the aphorism is right once you aren't actually young anymore; why Alan Rickman's diaries are unreadable; why you should keep a diary and what you should put in it; when and where it is appropriate to use the N-word ... ... and then…

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Language: English
Category: Sport
New episodes: Several times a week
Typical length: 1 hr 12 min
Latest episode: 6 Mar 2026
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