Squeezing the orange
By: Henry Blofeld
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Blue Door
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780007506408; 9780007506415
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Cricket; Radio broadcasting of sports; Anecdotes; Sports journalism; Sportscasters; Biography
Description: The quintessentially English cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and national treasure, fondly known as "Blowers", tells his colourful life story. Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE, nicknamed "Blowers" by the late Brian Johnston, is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. His distinctively rich, cut glass voice and his vividly eccentric observations of life on and off the pitch, have made him a household name, not only in Britain but around the world, wherever cricket is played. Blowers has been close the the heart of the game for over fifty years and his career has taken him to the far corners of the earth. This autobiography, stuffed to the gunwhales with delicious anecdotes, brings his astonishingly colourful story bang up to date.
Notes: "Life's great adventure - and the cricket too!"--Cover.

Includes index.