Back Garden Cricket Club
by Back Garden Cricket Club
Back garden cricket has its own laws: unwritten, fiercely argued, and unique to every lawn, patio and flowerbed in the land. Nobody has ever written them down. Until now. Forty years ago, the legendary Whispering Bob Harris and Jon Briggs, the original voice of Siri, played cricket in Bob's back garden. Most of the players turned up for the fun, and for the magnificent teas. Bob took it rather more seriously. He kept every score and worked out everyone's averages, and he still has them. Finding those scorebooks brought the memories flooding back, along with the gloriously bizarre rules needed to make cricket work in Bob's garden. So Bob and Jon have set out to compile the laws the MCC somehow forgot to catalogue. With the help of some brilliant professional cricketers, they're going back to where it all began: "one hand, one bounce", "tip and run" and the rest. After all, no first-class crickete
Episodes
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6. Words of Wisden
What happens when you invite the guardian of cricket's history to account for everything he's left out? For more than 160 years, Wisden has chronicled the triumphs, tragedies, scandals and statistics of cricket. But has the most authoritative book in the game been ignoring the matches that taught...
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5. Being Bumble
From the backstreets of Accrington to the commentary boxes of the world, David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd has never been short of a story. Or an opinion. Or an unexpected musical interlude. This week, Bumble joins Whispering Bob Harris and Jon Siri Briggs for a gloriously unpredictable journey through…
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4. Daggers Drawn
Before the commentary box, the county wickets and the blue blazer, Charles “Daggers” Dagnall was a boy in Bolton determined to become Ian Botham. The back garden had other ideas. Daggers joins broadcasters Whispering Bob Harris and Jon voice of Siri Briggs for a gloriously wayward innings…
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3. Gower Play
What happens when one of England's most elegant batsmen returns to the rather less elegant cricket of his childhood? Sir David Gower joins Voice of Siri - Jon Briggs and Radio Legend Whispering Bob Harris for a wonderfully entertaining journey from makeshift wickets to the Ashes, with a few...
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1. Howzat Bob?
More than 40 years ago, Broadcasters Whispering Bob Harris (Radio 1, 2 and The Old Grey Whistle Test) and Jon Briggs (Radio 2, 5, The Weakest Link and the Original Voice of Siri) played cricket in Bob’s back garden. There were homemade rules, magnificent teas, balls regularly dispatched into next...
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2. Aggers Do Stop It!
What do a farmer's handkerchief, a petrol lawnmower, a thrupenny bit and Test Match Special have in common? The answer is Jonathan Agnew. Aggers joins broadcasters Bob Harris and Jon Briggs to trace the journey from childhood games in a Lincolnshire garden to Lord's, Leicestershire, England and…
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About this show
Back garden cricket has its own laws: unwritten, fiercely argued, and unique to every lawn, patio and flowerbed in the land. Nobody has ever written them down. Until now.
Forty years ago, the legendary Whispering Bob Harris and Jon Briggs, the original voice of Siri, played cricket in Bob's back garden. Most of the players turned up for the fun, and for the magnificent teas. Bob took it rather more seriously. He kept every score and worked out everyone's averages, and he still has them.
Finding those scorebooks brought the memories flooding back, along with the gloriously bizarre rules needed to make cricket work in Bob's garden. So Bob and Jon have set out to compile the laws the MCC somehow forgot to catalogue.
With the help of some brilliant professional cricketers, they're going back to where it all began: "one hand, one bounce", "tip and run" and the rest. After all, no first-class crickete
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