Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches is the compelling story of a
cricket tour framed in a landscape of turbulent social history.
Cricket, England's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by
demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing global
disgust at apartheid, ahead of South Africa's planned 1970 tour.
The battle to stop and then to save the tour split the nation,
drove a wedge between the generations and destroyed friendships in
an uncanny foreshadowing of Brexit. Fifty years on, acclaimed
author and social historian Dr Colin Shindler has delved deep into
the MCC archives for new information and gained exclusive
interviews with key players of the time. Alongside the views of
cricketers Mike Brearley and Ray Illingworth are the opinions of
Labour politician Peter Hain, who was chairman of the Stop The
Seventy Tour campaign. Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches brings
you the full untold story of one of cricket's biggest controversies
- the significance of which reaches far beyond the realm of sport.
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