More Views from the Boundary: Celebrity Interviews from the Commentary Box

by Brian Johnston (Author), Brian Johnston (Author), Peter Baxter (Editor)

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  1994

  $3.25

  Personalities from many walks of life - actors, writers, musicians, footballers, politicians and others - took part in Brian Johnston's celebrity interviews on BBC Radio's Test Match Special , to chat about themselves over a glass of champagne. The only qualification they needed for an invitation was a love of cricket. This second collection of 20 of those interviews features such diverse characters as Alan Ayckbourn, Leslie Crowther, Ned Sherrin, Graham Taylor, Peter Scudamore, Harold Pinter, George Shearing, Eric Idle and Leslie Thomas.

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.25

  One of the highlights of BBC Radio's Test Match Special is the Saturday lunchtime celebrity interview, Views from the Boundary . Personalities from all walks of life - actors, writers, musicians, footballers, politicians and more - are invited into the commentary box to chat about themselves over a glass of champagne. The only qualification they need is a love of cricket. This collection features some of the most memorable conversations of the past 11 years, from such diverse characters as Alan Ayckbourn, Lord Runcie, Harold Pinter, John Major, Peter O'Toole, Eric Idle and Leslie Thomas. The author also wrote It's Been a Piece of Cake and Someone Who Was .