Arlott: The Authorised Biography - Couverture souple

Allen, David Rayvern

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0586212876 ISBN 13 : 9780586212875

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

John Arlott was the voice of cricket for over 30 years, but he was also a much-loved and multi-faceted man with friends from many walks of life, from Dylan Thomas to Jo Grimond as well as Denis Compton and Ian Botham. He was also a very private man who, although well-known to nearly everyone, was only known to a few. The son of a cemetery-keeper, Arlott began life as a clerk in a mental home before becoming a policeman in war-bombed Southampton, a tyro poet encouraged by John Betjeman, 12th man for Worcestershire CC and literary programmes producer at the BBC. He was also a Liberal candidate, author and wine correspondent.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0586212876
• ISBN 13: 9780586212875
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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