SOMEONE WHO WAS: REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE OF HAPPINESS AND FUN. (SIGNED)
Language: English
Published by Methuen, London, 1992
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Large 8vo. pp xi, 276, [16] pages of plates. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, 'To Jose, with all my love and with so many happy memories of my friendship with you and Charles, Brian - 10th May 1993'. Including a good signed handwritten letter by the author, on headed paper from his house on Boundary Road, London. Fine in slightly sunned, very good dust jacket.
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- Title
- SOMEONE WHO WAS: REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE OF HAPPINESS AND FUN. (SIGNED)
- Author
- JOHNSTON, Brian.
- Publisher
- Methuen, London
- Publication year
- 1992
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0413654907
- ISBN 13
- 9780413654908
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Reflections on a life of happiness and fun.
Brian Johnston was for many years synonymous with the great English game of cricket. Indeed he was known as the 'voice of cricket' following more than twenty years as a regular member of the commentary team for Test Match Special. However, his professional life was not limited to cricket alone. As a broadcaster and presenter he was involved in many popular radio programmes such as In Town Tonight, 733 episodes of Down Your Way, Let's Go Somewhere, as a member of the television commentary team on many major state occasions and for 42 years as part of the team commentating on the Boat Race.
On this tape is an A-Z account of his autobiography told in the inimitable Johnners' style with the accent heavily on humour, but also covering his experiences with the Granadier Guards during the war and the more poignant aspects of his family life. He is joined on the tape for a few minutes by noted actor Martin Jarvis, who plays the straight man in a hilarious recreation of his 100th broadcast of In Town Tonight in 1950 which featured a stand-up comedy routine with all those wonderful corny old jokes which inevitably started with 'I say I say...' Finally, we finish with the original BBC recording of Johnners' now famous cricket broadcast when he had an uncontrollable and extremely infectious giggling fit over Jonathan Agnew's description of the way Ian Botham had been out, before slowly regaining command of the situation.
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