Tellex Reports, 1970

Reference

MCC/MED/2/31

Date:

1970-03-14 - 1970-10-16

Level of description

file

Extent

3 folders

Part of

Department correspondence (MCC/MED/2)

Scope and Content

File of news reports from television and radio relating to MCC and cricket, with dates and times they were broadcast. Subjects include the South African tour of England in 1970, transcript of a News at Ten article on a fund to protect cricket grounds during the South African tour, decision by Granada Television not to cover the South African tour, transcript of a television interview with Edward Heath discussing the South African tour on the ITV programme 'This Week', transcript of a television interview between David Coleman and Harold Wilson discussing the impact of the South African tour, team selection for the Rest of the World tour of England in 1970 which replaced the cancelled South African tour, debate over whether the Rest of the World tour should be classed as an official Test series, comments on county cricket and the England tour of Australia in 1970-1971.

Associations

David Coleman
Harold Wilson
Sir Edward Richard George Heath
BBC
independent television

Subject

cancelled tours, apartheid, South Africa in England 1970, Rest of the World in England 1970, England in Australia 1970-1971

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

3 folders

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