Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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01 | Revolutionary | 20190722 | 20240122 (BBC7) 20240123 (BBC7) | The story of how Neville Cardus revolutionised cricket journalism. How Neville Cardus became cricket correspondent, revolutionising cricket writing with his take on the game. Read by Toby Jones. |
02 | Scoop | 20190723 | 20240123 (BBC7) 20240124 (BBC7) | Neville Cardus' difficult childhood in Manchester and his first scoop. Neville‘s childhood contrasts with adulthood. Plus, how he got an impressive scoop as a junior journalist. Read by Toby Jones. |
03 | Snobbery | 20190724 | 20240124 (BBC7) 20240125 (BBC7) | Neville Cardus' unusual marriage and his dislike of snobbery at Lord's. Working class Neville's life as a cricket correspondent at class conscious Lord's was often challenging. Read by Toby Jones. |
04 | Love | 20190725 | 20240125 (BBC7) 20240126 (BBC7) | Toby Jones describes Neville Cardus' love for music and a woman who sent him a fan letter. Neville Cardus' love for music and a woman who sent him a fan letter. The cricket correspondent's life read by Toby Jones. |
05 | 1960s | 20190726 | 20240126 (BBC7) 20240127 (BBC7) | Toby Jones describes how Cardus witnessed the birth of a new kind of cricket in the 1960s Cardus began the 1960s anxiously, but ended with a knighthood and the birth of a new cricket culture. Read by Toby Jones. |