Can Anyone Hear Me?
Testing Times with Test Match Special on Tour
Published on 1. November 2012
352 pages
978-1-906850-49-4 (ISBN)
Description
Test match special producer Peter Baxter presents tales of commentating capers from the Gabba to Eden Park in Jamaica. For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special, and during that time he reported on Test matches from around the world. This funny and revealing book takes us behind the scenes as Baxter and his much-loved TMS colleagues?do battle with local conditions and sometimes bizarre red tape to bring back home the latest news of England’s progress (or otherwise) on the field. It should have been straightforward, but somehow it rarely was...'The joy of Baxter’s book is that it communicates a love of cricket and shows why, whatever its flaws, we still need TMS.’ Michael Billington, Wisden Cricketer, on The Best Views from the Boundary.
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11/2012
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Peter Baxter first worked on Test Match Special in 1966, and was the producer of the programme from 1973-2007.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Mysterious East
- 2. The Lands Down Under
- 3. The Best Tour
- 4. The Caribbean
- 5. The African Experience
- 6. The East Revisited
- 7. The Commentaries
- 8. The Teams
- 9. The Talk Sport Years
- 10. The World Cups
- 11. The Conclusion
- Index
