Arlott
The Authorised Biography
Published on 1. March 2014
392 pages
978-1-78131-103-5 (ISBN)
Description
John Arlott's rich Hampshire burr was the voice of BBC cricket commentary for many years, from the great Test match radio broadcasts of the fifties to bucolic Sunday League on the television in the seventies. But he was also a distinguished journalist for the Guardian, a Liberal parliamentary candidate, a courageous opponent of apartheid in sport from the earliest opportunity, and a connoisseur - and imbiber - of fine wine without equal. David Rayvem Allen's definitive biography was acclaimed on its first publication and won the Cricket Society's award for Cricket Book of the Year. Now reissued by Aurum in a new paperback edition to tie in with its publication of the author's authorised biography of E.W. Swanton, Arlott evokes both a broadcasting legend and a sensitive, humane man, whose graphic, pensive and wry commentaries came to epitomise the sound of an English summer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-78131-103-5 (9781781311035)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
08/2013
Aurum
€33.63
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Person
David Rayvern Allen is the author of twenty books on cricket, including The Punch Book of Cricket and Cricket: An Illustrated History of the Game. He was a full-time radio producer for the BBC until 1997, and still produces programmes as a freelance. He lives in Chorleywood, Bucks.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. A Boy in Basingstoke
- 2. Battles and Beatings
- 3. First Test and First Jobs
- 4. PC 94
- 5. Of Period and Place
- 6. A Hell of a Gamble
- 7. Poetry and the BBC
- 8. Gone to the Cricket
- 9. Season of High Hope
- 10. Any Questions? on South Africa
- 11. Bordeaux and the Grape
- 12. Football, and a Holiday on Alderney
- 13. Public Figure
- 14. Exercises in Serendipity
- 15. Ashes Retained
- 16. Break-up
- 17. Survivor
- 18. 'I Shall Remain a Liberal All my Life'
- 19. One Team, One Individual
- 20. Return to Hampshire
- 21. Jimmy
- 22. The Cricketers' Association and the South African Debate
- 23. The Voice of Cricket
- 24. Relationships and Friendships
- 25. Farewell to Commentary
- 26. Emeritus Years
- Appendices
- A 'Death on the Road'
- B John Arlott's Publications
- C Discography
- D Video Productions
- E Awards and Trophies
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photo Insert
- Copyright
