Nick and Phil return with the podcast and there's plenty to catch up on, including action from the British Open and US Women's Open, plus a preview of the Xian Grand Prix. We also catch up with your correspondence too, round up the rest of the snooker news and reflect on the Olympics at the end of a memorable Paris Games. Learn more about your ad c…

Phil and Nick are joined by Oliver Lines for our new episode. He tells us about his career so far, including reaching two recent tournament quarter-finals. There's chat about what it's been like to be on tour at the same time as his father Peter, and his friendship with Judd Trump. Plus Ollie's hopes for the future. There's also a catch up with a b…

Nick and Phil pay tribute to the great Ray Reardon, who has died at the age of 91. There's talk about Ray's brilliant achievements on the table, including his six world titles, and amazing life off it. We have also included your thoughts and memories, which we appreciate you sending in. We also reflect on the action on the table, with Judd Trump st…

Phil and Nick return with a new episode, as we catch up with your correspondence. Topics include John Higgins, venues for tournaments and BBC coverage. There's also a catch up with the early action from the Shanghai Masters, plus a round-up of the rest of the latest snooker news. Keep your thoughts coming to us - tweet us @TalkingSnooker or email t…

Nick and Phil reflect on victory for Ali Carter at the Championship League, as he beat Jackson Page in the final to claim the sixth ranking title of his career. There's also a look ahead to the Shanghai Masters and the rest of the snooker news. Plus Nick tells us about meeting up with a fan of the podcast in Germany. We'll return next week. Please …

Nick and Phil are joined by World Championship runner-up Jak Jones in a marathon new episode of the podcast. Jak talks us through his memorable run to the final at the Crucible. There's chat about his memorable victories over a number of top players, and just coming up short against Kyren Wilson in the final. He also has his say again on comments m…

Phil and Nick return to reflect on the first week of the 24-25 season. There's eight days of Championship League action to catch up on. Plus there's Your Views and a round up of the rest of the snooker news. Keep your thoughts coming to us please - tweet us @TalkingSnooker or email talkingsnooker@yahoo.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po…

Nick and Phil are joined by a special guest presenter Kevin Garside, the chief sports correspondent of the i Newspaper. There's more reflection on the recent World Championship, including those quarter-final exits for Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump. Plus we talk snooker in the media and Kevin's take on the sport's presence in newspapers. We'll ca…

Phil and Nick return with a brand new episode for a brand new snooker season. We catch up with events at Q School and look ahead to the first event of the 24-25 season, the Championship League. We also pay tribute to Dene O'Kane, who has sadly died at the age of 61. Please keep your correspondence coming to us on any snooker matter - tweet @Talking…

Nick and Phil return with our final episode of the season, reflecting on World Championship glory for Kyren Wilson at the Crucible. We talk about his victory in the final over Jak Jones, as well as the semi-finals. We also chat about the tournament as a whole, including the television coverage, and catch up with your Sheffield correspondence. There…

Nick and Phil are back with a special episode live from Sheffield, and they're joined by two brilliant guests in father and son, Mark and Ryan Watterson. There's plenty of chat about all the best of 25 matches played in the World Championship at the Crucible over the last week, from the second round and quarter-final stages, plus the latest news fr…

Nick and Phil return with the latest news from the World Championship at the Crucible. On the table, there's a review of the first round stage and a look ahead at best of 25 matches in the coming days. Off the table, there's loads to talk about including the future of the Crucible and this week's media appearances from Barry Hearn. Plus the threat …

Nick and Phil look ahead to the biggest tournament in the sport, the World Championship in Sheffield. Before they get stuck into the 17 days to come, there's a review of qualifying, including another couple of highly dramatic Judgement Days, with the biggest story seeing the exit of Neil Robertson. We then bring you the World Championship draw and …

Phil and Nick are back with a Sunday night post final episode, reflecting on glory for Mark Williams at the Tour Championship. There's plenty of chat about a brilliant run to the title for Williams, which culminated in him beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the world final. There's also talk about world qualifying, the return of the tiered system for a n…

Nick and Phil return with their first episode of April and it's a bit of a monster affair. The main part of the episode sees special guest Liam Davies join us. We chat to the 17-year-old about winning a two year tour card. There's also talk about his time growing up and association with various stars of the game, including Mark Williams. Liam recou…

Phil and Nick return with a new episode and there's so much snooker to catch up on. We lead by reflecting on a wonderful new world champion in this sport. There's plenty of chat about victory for Bai Yulu at the Women's World Championship, as well as your correspondence on the tournament. There's also a full review of the World Open, with Judd Trum…

Phil and Nick return to reflect on the Saudi Invitational, including your views. There's also a look ahead to next week's World Open. Plus there's talk about victory for Mark Selby at the Championship League and the latest from the Women's World Championship, plus the Q Tour global play-offs. We'll return after the World Open to review that tournam…

Nick and Phil return with a new episode of the podcast, catching up on all the latest snooker news and your correspondence. We report on the latest developments at the Championship League, including the 200th maximum break made in professional snooker. There's also the Seniors 900 at Goffs, the Saudi invitational event and the Women's World Champio…

Phil and Nick have welcomed a brilliant guest to the podcast in Tom Ford. Listen to Tom speak about his early days, including memories of Malcolm Thorne, and some of his memorable career moments including a maximum break against Steve Davis just hours after discharging himself from hospital. He also talks very movingly about some of his struggles d…

Phil and Nick reflect on the Welsh Open in Llandudno and a third ranking tournament victory in 15 months for Gary Wilson. There's a review of the week, including thoughts on Martin O'Donnell's unlikely run to the final, Wilson's semi-final maximum and a return to form for world champion Luca Brecel. There's also a look ahead to the Players Champion…

Nick and Phil preview one of the sport's best loved tournaments, the Welsh Open. There's a look ahead to some of the early highlights in Llandudno and chat about the event's magic moments of recent years. There's also a round-up of the rest of the latest snooker action, including two maximum breaks at the Championship League. Plus we read out your …

Phil and Nick return with a review of the German Masters in Berlin, where Judd Trump claimed his fourth ranking tournament win of the season and his 27th overall. There's chat about Si Jiahui reaching the final, Sam Craigie making the last four and some striking quotes from an improved Neil Robertson. There's also a look back at other recent events…

Nick and Phil return with a new episode to react to news that a snooker tournament will be held in Saudi Arabia in March. Your views on the issue would be welcomed. Tweet us @TalkingSnooker or email talkingsnooker@yahoo.com There's also a look ahead to the German Masters in Berlin, always one of the highlights of the season, plus more action from t…

Nick and Phil are back and joined by a special guest, referee Paul Collier. There's plenty of chat about Paul's time growing up and three decades in the game, including his three world finals, dealing with the Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ali Carter 'Barge-gate' incident and his years working as tournament director. There's also a review of the World Grand …

Nick and Phil reflect on another memorable edition of the Masters, with Ronnie O'Sullivan beating Ali Carter in the final to claim the title for an eighth time. There's a mountain of topics discussed here, including two maximum breaks, O'Sullivan's controversial comments on Alexandra Palace, the crowd during the final, players doubling up as pundit…

Nick and Phil look ahead to the Masters at Alexandra Palace, always one of the highlights of the snooker season. There's a preview of every first round match to come, kicking off with the meeting of Luca Brecel and Jack Lisowski on Sunday. There's plenty of other snooker too, including German Masters qualifiers, the Championship League, Macau, Seni…

Phil and Nick return with the final Talking Snooker episode of the year. There's more reflection on the last 12 months, as we select our highlights and lowlights of 2023. Plus we talk about our hopes for the new year. There's also a catch up with our backlog of correspondence, including the remainder of those shots you can't get out of your head. A…

Nick and Phil once again join together with David Hendon for the festive season. There's so much in this three hours, we'd be here until next Michaelmas if we listed it all. Suffice to say, included here is a Christmas bingo card (sherry or mince pies at the ready). a brand new quiz, a look back at a dramatic year in the sport, a jokes section, a d…

Nick and Phil reflect on another madcap and enjoyable edition of the Shoot Out, which ended in a tenth ranking event success for Mark Allen. There's chat about Shaun Murphy's maximum break, victory for a 13-year-old and Dominic Dale's songbook. There's also look ahead to the final ranking tournament of the year, the Scottish Open in Edinburgh. Plus…

Nick and Phil return to reflect on yet another famous triumph for Ronnie O'Sullivan, who has become the oldest winner of the UK Championship thirty years on from being the youngest winner. There's a lot of talk on a brilliant week overall in York, which included a run to the final for Ding Junhui and the most points ever scored in any professional …

Phil and Nick are joined by the journalist Matt Bishop to look ahead to one of the highlights of the season, the UK Championship in York. They preview all the last 32 matches to come, including defending champion Mark Allen taking on Ding Junhui. We look back too at the excitement of Judgement Day. Plus Matt talks to us about what gave him his love…

Nick and Phil reflect on victory for Mark Allen at the Champion of Champions and an enjoyable week overall in Bolton. There's also reaction to the furore over Stephen Hendry's admission on television that he had never seen the women's world champion Baipat Siripaporn play before, including your views. In a really busy episode, there's also the late…

Nick and Phil are back to reflect on a first ranking event title for Zhang Anda, who beat Tom Ford to claim the International Championship in China. There's plenty of talk on the tournament overall, including an end to Judd Trump's amazing run of success, an impressive run to the last four for Jordan Brown and defeat in the semi-finals for Ronnie O…

Nick and Phil are joined by one of the most exciting young prospects in the game, 17-year-old Stan Moody. He talks about first discovering the game, his success as an amateur in his teenage years and his first few months on tour. Among the topics we discuss are his relationship with Shaun Murphy, struggles with the yips, playing in the Shoot Out at…

Phil and Nick reflect on yet another success for Judd Trump, an amazing third ranking event title in a row with victory at the Northern Ireland Open. There's plenty of talk about the week overall in Belfast, including Chris Wakelin's memorable run all the way to the final, the two sides of Jack Lisowski and standout victories for Andres Petrov and …

Phil and Nick reflect on a second successive tournament victory, and a 25th ranking event success overall, for Judd Trump at the Wuhan Open. There's plenty of talk on the tournament as a whole, which included a run to the semi-finals for Wu Yize. There's also discussion on the so-called 'Macau Five' and the WST reaction to their decision to play in…

Nick and Phil are back with a marathon new episode. They are joined by the snooker commentator David Burney to discuss a host of topics. There's a review of the English Open in Brentwood, where Judd Trump claimed his 24th ranking event title. Plus there's the start of the Wuhan Open and latest from the Australian Women's Open. We also reflect on ne…

Nick and Phil are back and they're reflecting on a second British Open success in three seasons for Mark Williams. There's full coverage of the tournament in Cheltenham, plus all the latest from this week's English Open in Brentwood. There's a look ahead to the Wuhan Open and a look back at a 12th UK women's title for Reanne Evans. Keep your though…

Nick and Phil look ahead to two tournaments for the price of none, the British Open in Cheltenham and English Open in Brentwood. They pay tribute to former Masters champion Perrie Mans, who has died at the age of 82. Plus the latest qualifying action, the UK Women's Championship in Leeds, the 900 and the shots that you just can't get out of your he…

Phil and Nick reflect on a terrific Shanghai Masters and yet another success for Ronnie O'Sullivan, who has won the tournament for a fourth time in succession. There's plenty of talk about the superb final between O'Sullivan and world champion Luca Brecel, along with many of the top matches and stories throughout the week. We'll be back next time t…

Nick and Phil are live in Manchester to talk about their latest battle for the Tony Meo Trophy, which went down to the final black in a deciding frame. We also catch up with all your correspondence, with topics including WST's live scoring system, snooker in the United States and the future of the Crucible. And there's the latest news from qualifyi…

Phil and Nick are joined by European Masters winner Barry Hawkins to talk through his recent victory and brilliant career. There's plenty of chat about his early days, first ranking event victory in Australia, appearing in the world final and hopes for the future. It would be lovely to have you for company. There's also a look at Wuhan Open qualify…

Phil and Nick reflect on a tremendous victory for Barry Hawkins at the European Masters and all the big stories from a fine tournament in Germany. There's also a round-up of the other news and action, including British Open qualifying, the US Women's Open and Q Tour. We'll have our next Your Views episode very soon, so please do keep your correspon…

As the 2023/24 snooker season really starts getting into full swing, Nick and Phil look ahead to the British Open qualifiers in Leicester and the European Masters in Nuremberg over the next two weeks. All the big names are in action over the two events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Nick and Phil are joined by Shoot Out winner Chris Wakelin to talk about his career so far and hopes for the future. There's chat about his early days on tour, reaching the Crucible for the first time and that memorable victory in Leicester early this year. There's also more of your forecasts on tournament winners for the new season, plus a round-u…

Nick and Phil return for their first episode of August, reflecting on a busy week of European Masters qualifying. There were some surprise victories, brilliant performances from star names and the first maximum break of the season. There's also a look at some highlights from the British Open draw, a round-up of the rest of the snooker news and your…

Nick and Phil reflect on the climax of the Championship League, and a 12th ranking event success for Shaun Murphy. There's also a look ahead to the European Masters qualifiers and a round-up of the rest of the snooker news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Nick Metcalfe and Phil Haigh

Phil and Nick reflect on a memorable appearance on the podcast last week from John Higgins and take in some of your reaction. We also catch up on the last two weeks of action at the Championship League and look ahead to the climax of the tournament in Leicester. Plus there's your latest correspondence too. Keep it coming please, as it's particularl…

Nick and Phil welcome all-time snooker great John Higgins to the podcast for a marquee episode. The four-time world champion speaks to us at length about his incredible life and career in the sport. Among the many topics we cover are: Higgins and his relationships with fellow Class of 92 members Ronnie O'Sullivan and Mark Williams; confrontations w…

Nick and Phil are joined by Brendan Cooper, author of the superb book 'Deep Pockets: Snooker and the Meaning of Life'. Brendan chats about his love of snooker and how the book came about. We also talk through the latest news and results from the Championship League and round-up everything else from the snooker world, including Rob Walker completing…