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Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 36m
John Inverdale presents another hilarious selection of resounding clangers from the very sporting BBC Sports Department. Here are the gremlins, giggles, goofs and gaffes that can turn an innocent sports report into a commentator's nightmare - and a listener's dream. So 'corpse' with the Test Match Special team, relish 'own goal' innuendoes with gui...
View BookA Close Shot With A Charge of Sixpence
Author: Sir Samuel Baker
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Author Sir Samuel Baker
Narrator Dinsdale Landen
Duration 17m
Sir Samuel White Baker, (b. 8 June 1821 - d. 30 December 1893) was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. This account of a big game encounter is a thrilling testimony that relays the sights, smells and especially sounds of a nineteenth-century hunting experience.
View BookWomen In Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played To Win
Author: Rachel Ignotofsky
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Author Rachel Ignotofsky
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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 BookJohn Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes and Slips!
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator John Arlott
Duration 1h 9m
John Arlott was BBC's Voice of Cricket for more than 30 summers and reported on all the key cricket matches from the 40's to his final commentary in 1980 at Lords. The imagery and wit of an uncomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic moments. From the 40's we hear about Bradman's last test, from the 50's Compton's h...
View BookAuthor: Steven Gerrard
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Author Steven Gerrard
Narrator Michael Ryan
Duration 13h 28m
Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team, and is the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion's league final. His entire career, since 1998, has been spent at Anfield with Liverpool. In this book he charts his full playing...
View BookAuthor: Brian Johnston
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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 BookAlways Managing: My Autobiography
Author: Harry Redknapp
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Author Harry Redknapp
Narrator David John
Duration 13h 36m
Harry is the manager who has seen it all - from a dismal 70s Portakabin at Oxford City and training pitches with trees in the middle to the unbeatable highs of the Premiership, lifting the FA Cup and taking on Real Madrid in the Champions League. With his much loved, no-nonsense delivery, Harry brings us a story filled with passion and humour that...
View BookAuthor: Robert Preston
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Author Robert Preston
Narrator The Author
Duration 57m
It's a world in which teamwork and goals are more than just motivational phrases, and moving the goal posts will get you sent off the pitch. Football management has come a long way since men in sheepskin coats bestrode the land. The BBC's business editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on this multimillion pound industry and, with managers like Harry R...
View BookTrevor's World of Sport, Series 1
Author: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
The first series of Andy Hamilton's BBC Radio 4 comedy about sports PR agent Trevor. Trevor and Sammy are the movers and shakers at TS Sports Stars agency. Friends for twenty years, and business partners for nine, they are chalk and cheese: Trevor is thoughtful, honest and sensitive while Sammy is a rapacious dealmaker with the morals of a hyena. I...
View BookJohnners' It's Been A Lot of Fun
Author: Brian Johnston
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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.
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