1 CD, Alex Bannister, cricket writer, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 10 tracks.
Track 1: [0:00-0:54] Bannister talks about a post-war cricket match between Cambridge and Leveson-Gower XI, [0:55-2:49] Bannister talks about getting into cricket at the age of 12 and his first visit to Lord's, [2:00-3:36] Bannister talks about starting in journalism and going on the 1946-1947 MCC tour to Australia for the Press Association, [3:37-5:13] Bannister talks about replacing a Daily Mail journalist who passed away during the tour.
Track 2: [0:00-1:18] Bannister talks about leaving the Daily Mail and being on 29 tours for them, [1:19-3:07] Bannister talks about Jim Swanton [3:08-5:15] Bannister talks about the 1953-1954 MCC tour of the West Indies.
Track 3: [0:00-3:54] Bannister talks about Len Hutton making a double century in the last Test Match of the 1953-1954 tour and being accused of snubbing Alexander Bustamante, [3:55-5:13] Bannister talks about Hutton's captaincy of England and the dropping of Alec Bedser for the Sydney Test Match in 1953-1954.
Track 4: [0:00-0:29] Bannister talks about Don Bradman having a conversation with Arthur Morris about believing Alec Bedser would play in the Sydney Test Match, [0:30-2:07] Bannister talks about the bowling of Frank Tyson, [2:08-3:03] Bannister talks about Brian Statham, [3:04-3:29] Bannister talks about the Sydney Test Match during the 1954-1955 MCC tour of Australia, [3:30-4:58] Bannister talks about Frank Tyson.
Track 5: [0:00-0:18] Rayvern Allen talks about John Arlott bumping into Frank Tyson in a book shop in Australia, [0:19-2:06] Bannister talks about working for the Daily Express, [2:07-4:21] Bannister talks about Jim Swanton and the Cricket Writers Club, [4:22-5:10] Bannister talks about Swanton failing to receieve a telegram during the bodyline tour.
Track 6: [0:00-0:28] Bannister talks about Jim Swanton using a pseudonym, [0:29-3:26] Bannister talks about cricketer writers he admired and Raymond Robertson-Glasgow, [3:27-4:03] Bannister talks about John Arlott, [4:04-4:32] Bannister talks about cricket being well served by newspapers.
Track 7: [0:00-3:56] Bannister talks about how players used to trust journalists and getting Don Bradman to write for the Daily Mail on the 1953 Australia tour of England, [3:57-6:18] Bannister talks about the procedure of watching a day of a Test Match and writing an article.
Track 8: [0:00-2:26] Bannister talks about writing styles and having to write about a bad day's play, [2:27-3:51] Bannister talks about working in a press box.
Track 9: [0:00-0:46] Bannister talks about a fish and chip shop pretending a newspaper to get into the press box, [0:47-3:17] Bannister working conditions of a press box and Lyn Wellings taunting Jim Swanton, [3:18-5:17] Bannister talks about the Duke of Norfolk.
Track 10: [0:00-2:05] Bannister talks about giving up writing after leaving the Daily Mail and writing books for Len Hutton, Alec Bedser and Cricket Cauldron.