Arlott, Swanton and the soul of English cricket

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Label

Arlott, Swanton and the soul of English cricket

Statement of responsibility

Stephen Fay and David Kynaston

Creator

• Fay, Stephen

Contributor

• Kynaston, David

Subject

• Class consciousness -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Cricket -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Arlott, John
• Swanton, Ernest William, 1907-
• Sport

Language

eng

Summary

Tells the story of how two BBC broadcasters battled for the soul of English cricket during a time of great social change. For more than a quarter of a century after the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commentators on games of cricket. John Arlott and E.W. ('Jim') Swanton transformed the broadcasting of the nation's summer game into a national institution. Swanton was born into a middle-class family and privately educated; Arlott was the son of a working-class council employee, educated at state schools until he left at the age of sixteen. Because of their strong personalities and distinctive voices - Swanton's crisp and upper-class, Arlott's with its Hampshire burr - each had a loyal following in the post-war years, when England's class system had a slot for almost everyone

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 796.3'58'092241
• 796.358092241

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography