Inside the Box: My Life with Test Match Special

Baxter, Peter

ISBN 10: 1846890624 / ISBN 13: 9781846890628

Published by Quiller Publishing Ltd, 2009

About this Item

Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inside the Box: My Life with Test Match Special
• Publisher: Quiller Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846890624
• ISBN 13: 9781846890628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very good

About this title

Synopsis

A celebration of three decades of cricket and a unique insight into the world of radio and broadcasting.

About the Author

Peter Baxter was born in 1947 and joined the BBC in 1965, after a brief spell in the British Forces Broadcasting Service. In 1973 he was appointed Radio Cricket Producer and took charge of Test Match Special. As well as cricket, he also produced rugby union broadcast for the BBC and for ten years produced the University Boat Race broadcasts. He retired from the BBC after forty-two years in 2007 having produced Test Match Special for thirty-four years. During that time he had commented and reported on Test matches in all ten Test-playing countries. He has also written or co-written fifteen books, most recently Inside the Box: My Life with Test Match Special, as well as From Arlott to Aggers, Views from the Boundary and Test Match Special 50 Not Out.