Thanks, Johnners: An Affectionate Tribute to a Broadcasting Legend Audiobook (Free)

Browse BY JONATHAN AGNEW AND FOREWORD Browse BY THE MAGNIFICIENT STEPHEN FRY WITH Shock CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JONATHAN’S Check MATCH SPECIAL COLLEAGUES!! Perfect for cricket supporters everywhere, Thanks Johnners can be a warm and witty tribute to Brian Johnston and his time in the helm of Test Match Special.

READ BY JONATHAN AGNEW, FOREWORD BY STEPHEN FRY AND SPECIAL Visitor APPEARANCES FROM Check MATCH SPECIAL Co-workers. The Test Match Unique on-air incident, where Jonathan Agnew’s comment on about Thanks, Johnners: An Affectionate Tribute to a Broadcasting Tale Ian Botham’s attempt to prevent stepping on his stumps – ‘He just couldn’t quite obtain his leg over’ provoking long term matches of giggles, especially from Brian Johnston, has been voted the greatest piece of sports commentary ever. The a friendly relationship between ‘Aggers’ and ‘Johnners’ became immortalised during that broadcasting traditional, but there is a considerably deeper bond between your two males, as this exciting book reveals.

Jonathan 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 for the family farm, ear glued towards the transistor radio, however the two men met formally only once Agnew joined the BBC team at Headingley in 1991.

Thus began a great functioning partnership which, fuelled by a mutual enthusiasm for the noble game, bridged the generation space and ended only with Johnston’s sudden death in 1994. As this publication demonstrates so convincingly, Johnners’s wit, warmth and sense of fun was an attribute not merely of his cricket commentaries, but also in the way he lived his existence. His influence on ‘Aggers’ is actually recognisable in the same amiable and casual way his successor presents Test Match Special today.

Thanks, Johnners is a rich mixture of biography and anecdote, of antics and dramas on / off the pitch, in and out of the commentary container, its pages filled up with stories about the great names of cricket including Fred Trueman, Geoffrey Boycott, Vivian Richards, Michael Keeping and Ian Botham. Just as TMS is the sound of summer, therefore Thanks, Johnners is the fresh air flow rippling the long grass of remembered pleasures.