Perfect for cricket fans everywhere, Thanks Johnners is a warm
and witty tribute to Brian Johnston and his time at the helm of
Test Match Special.
The Test Match Special on-air incident, in which Jonathan
Agnew's comment on Ian Botham's attempt to avoid stepping on his
stumps "He just couldn't quite get his leg over" provoking
prolonged fits of giggles, most notably from Brian Johnston, has
been voted the greatest piece of sporting commentary ever. The
friendship between "Aggers" and "Johnners" became immortalised
through that broadcasting classic, but there was a far deeper bond
between the two men, as this fascinating book reveals.
Jonathan Agnew had grown up to the sound of Johnston, Arlott,
and a young Martin-Jenkins et al on TMS as he followed his father
around on the family farm, ear glued to the transistor radio, but
the two men met formally only when Agnew joined the BBC team at
Headingley in 1991.
Thus began a great working partnership which, fuelled by a
mutual passion for the noble game, bridged the generation gap and
ended only with Johnston's sudden death in 1994. As this book
demonstrates so convincingly, Johnners's wit, warmth and sense of
fun was a feature not only of his cricket commentaries, but also in
the way he lived his life. His influence on "Aggers" is clearly
recognisable in the same amiable and informal manner in which his
successor presents Test Match Special today.
Thanks, Johnners is a rich blend of biography and anecdote, of
antics and dramas on and off the pitch, in and out of the
commentary box, its pages filled with stories about the great names
of cricket including Fred Trueman, Geoffrey Boycott, Vivian
Richards, Michael Holding and Ian Botham. Just as TMS is the sound
of summer, so Thanks, Johnners is the fresh breeze rippling the
long grass of remembered pleasures."
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