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• Thanks, Johnners

  

  Just as tms is the sound of summer, so thanks, johnners is the fresh breeze rippling the long grass of remembered pleasuresthanks, johnners is a rich blend of biography and anecdote, of antics and dramas on and off the pitch, in and out of the commentary box, filled with stories about the great names of cricket, including fred trueman, geoffrey boycott, vivian richards, michael holding, and ian bothamoxfam bookshop ilkley read by jonathan agnew with a foreword read by the magnificent stephen fry with surprise contributions from jonathan's test-match special colleagues!perfect for cricket fans everywhere, thanks johnners is a warm and witty tribute to brian johnston and his time at the helm of test match specialhis influence on "aggers" is clearly recognisable in the same amiable and informal manner in which his successor presents test match special todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethus began a great working partnership which, fuelled by a mutual passion for the noble game, bridged the generation gap and ended only with johnston's sudden death inthe friendship between "aggers" and "johnners" became immortalised through that broadcasting classic, but there was a far deeper bond between the two men, as this fascinating book revealsthe test match special on-air incident, in which jonathan agnew's comment on ian botham's attempt to avoid stepping on his stumps - "he just couldn't quite get his leg over" - provoking prolonged fits of giggles, most notably from brian johnston, has been voted the greatest piece of sporting commentary everjonathan agnew had grown up to the sound of johnston, arlott, and a young martin-jenkins et al on tms as he followed his father around on the family farm, ear glued to the transistor radio, but the two men met formally only when agnew joined the bbc team at headingley inas this book demonstrates so convincingly, johnners's wit, warmth and sense of fun was a feature not only of his cricket commentaries, but also in the way he lived his life

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