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A celebration of this summer's Ashes series between England and Australia, an epic sporting battle that reached out beyond the world of cricket lovers to hold a whole nation spell-bound. Mark Nicholas presents a special two-hour documentary featuring interviews with key protagonists from the present teams - alongside cricket legends from the past and celebrity fans - to relive the dramatic twists and turns of the five-match Test series regarded as one of the finest in history.

The highlights of the cricketing action are enjoyed in full - from the nail-biting finishes at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge to the climax at the Oval - but they are given extra impact by the insights of those who experienced them first hand. How did England regroup after the humiliation at Lord's? Did England under captain Michael Vaughan really out-think as well as outplay the Australians for much of the summer? And where to place Freddy Flintoff in the league table of great English sporting heroes?

How, in short, did the England team - and its supporters - shake off an inferiority complex that it has lived with for decades in the face of its oldest and greatest adversary? Ashes Fever is the story of how an extraordinary series of cricket matches captured the public's imagination - dominating first the back and then the front pages of the national press - and came to define the spirit of the summer of 2005.

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