Christmas special: Our mystery guest talks about his dream doubles partner, why he moved on from tennis and some world-class fence-sitting

It's Christmas so we are taking some time off, but we have recorded a couple of special episodes to keep you going in the festive period.

This week, James turns the spotlight onto George Bellshaw, born in 1992 in Sutton Coldfield to a lawyer and a teacher. Once known as the best tabloid tennis journalist in the UK, he then turned his mind to matters of health and social care in the civil service, but kept his oar in by co-hosting what was then the Love Tennis Podcast and keeping up appearances on TV and radio stations around the world.

We talked about playing the trombone, wishing he had been a better person as a youngster and why he might be the most famous person from the town where he grew up.

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