Sign In Join Now
User Accessibility
  • Increase Font

  • Invert Colours

Search for a Book Browse Books Menu
Johnner's Cricketing Gaffes, Giggles and Cakes Cover Play Sample

Sample may contain unsuitable content.

Stream / Download

Audiobook streaming provided by:

OverDrive Logo

Share this book:

Johnner's Cricketing Gaffes, Giggles and Cakes

AuthorBrian Johnston

NarratorBrian Johnston

Duration1h 10m

CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Sport

PublisherBBC Audiobooks

VersionUnabridged

  Save to Wish List
  Add to Favourites List

A compelation of cricketing moments including the letter from William H Tit, the streakers commentaries "cheeky performance and waving her flag and other things", the chocolate cake mouthfuls, Johnners numerous scoring mix ups, the resemblance between Fred Truemand and a turnip, cricket for the blind, Jim'll Fix it voiceover, Ned Sherrin interviewing Johnners on his last Test Match, the Parrot impersonation, John Cleese and John Major admitting he stopped cabinet meetings to get the test match results. Also included will be full length gaffes and giggles from the archive with extensive interviews with the likes of Peter O'Toole, Michael Bentine, even more Fawlty Towers insights from John Cleese, Johnner's appearance on Quote Unquote and his version of the famous "the bowler's Holding, the batman's Willie", Down Yoour Way with Dennis Compton, Test Match Trivia quiz archive material and much much more even the notorious Johnners Ashes comedy song! Barry Johnston, son of Johnners and producer of the Wit of Cricket series, is to produce the cd and link the incidents!

0 (0 Reviews)
0
0
0
0
0

Related Titles

The Cycling Podcast: A Journey Through the Cycling Year Cover

The Cycling Podcast: A Journey Through the Cycling Year

Author: Richard Moore

The Cycling Podcast: A Journey Through the Cycling Year

Author Richard Moore

Narrator Various

Duration 7h 5m

Embark on a journey through the cycling year with The Cycling Podcast, which has been entertaining and informing fans since 2013. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espa¤a. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore...

View Book
The Push Cover

The Push

Author: Tommy Caldwell

The Push

Author Tommy Caldwell

Narrator Johnathan Mcclain

Duration 13h 30m

Penguin Audio presents The Push by Tommy Caldwell, read by Johnathan McClain. A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan. On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb...

View Book
A Boy In the Water Cover

A Boy In the Water

Author: Tom Gregory

A Boy In the Water

Author Tom Gregory

Narrator Tom Gregory

Duration 4h 31m

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Boy in the Water written and read by Tom Gregory. Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bri...

View Book
The Salt Path Cover

The Salt Path

Author: Raynor Winn

The Salt Path

Author Raynor Winn

Narrator Anne Reid

Duration 11h 1m

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, read by Anne Reid. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South Wes...

View Book
The Football Ramble Cover

The Football Ramble

Author: Marcus Speller

The Football Ramble

Author Marcus Speller

Narrator The Authors

Duration 7h 26m

Downloaded over ten million times a year the Football Ramble podcast has established itself as the essential, independent voice of football punditry. The weekly podcast has resonated with supporters around the world and their sold-out live shows have been a massive hit. This book is a collaboration from all four presenters and will tackle the real...

View Book
Fifty Years of Hurt Cover

Fifty Years of Hurt

Author: Henry Winter

Fifty Years of Hurt

Author Henry Winter

Narrator Charlie Anson

Duration 14h 3m

'England invented football, codified it, became champions of the world in 1966 but humiliatingly then forgot how to play the greatest game of all. England took their eye off a ball they arrogantly thought they owned, allowing other nations to run off with it.' It has been Fifty Years of Hurt since Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup trophy at Wembl...

View Book
Johnners At the Beeb Cover

Johnners At the Beeb

Author: Brian Johnston

Johnners At the Beeb

Author Brian Johnston

Narrator Brian Johnston

Duration 2h 52m

Barry Johnston presents a retrospective of his father's career as a much-loved BBC broadcaster. Jovial Johnners was the doyen of cricket commentators, as well as a consumer of chocolate cake, a reporter, presenter, quizmaster and much-loved voice at State occasions. For nearly 50 years the ever-affable, always enthusiastic Brian Johnston brought wa...

View Book
Women In Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played To Win Cover

Women In Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played To Win

Author: Rachel Ignotofsky

Women In Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played To Win

Author Rachel Ignotofsky

Narrator

Duration 2h 33m

Women in Sport celebrates the success of the tough, bold and fearless women who paved the way for today's athletes. The sportswomen featured include well-known figures like tennis player Serena Williams and broadcaster Clare Balding, as well as lesser-known pioneers like Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and Keiko Fukuda...

View Book
Johnners' It's Been A Lot of Fun Cover

Johnners' It's Been A Lot of Fun

Author: Brian Johnston

Johnners' It's Been A Lot of Fun

Author Brian Johnston

Narrator Brian Johnston

Duration 1h 15m

Brian Johnston covered cricket for BBC Radio and Television, at home and abroad, since 1946. After Eton, Oxford and The Guards he joined the BBC only by chance. In this reading from his book he covers his career and family life from the start.

View Book
How To Be A Footballer Cover

How To Be A Footballer

Author: Peter Crouch

How To Be A Footballer

Author Peter Crouch

Narrator Peter Crouch

Duration 7h 40m

You become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you're suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have le...

View Book