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Alex Bannister interviewed by David Rayvern Allen Part 2



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/174
Date:
2006-01-23
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 32 minutes 57 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
1 CD, Alex Bannister, cricket writer, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 10 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:16] Bannister talks about someone's wife named Ann, [0:17-2:51] Bannister talks about cricket writers including Lyn Wellings .

Track 2: [0:00-1:18] Bannister talks about cricket writers including Neville Cardus, [1:19-4:28] Bannister talks about A A Thompson and Jim Kilburn.

Track 3: [0:00-2:11] Bannister talks about the over-coverage of cricket by newspapers, [2:12-3:01] Bannister talks about getting a story from Colin Cowdrey on taking a team to South Africa which led the front page of the Daily Mail, [3:02-3:19] Bannister introduces his wife, [3:20- Bannister talks about his views of South Africa under apartheid and ethics of touring there.

Track 4: [0:00-2:11] Bannister talks about the ethics of touring South Africa under apartheid, [2:12-4:39] Bannister struggles to remember the name of a Yorkshire captain.

Track 5: [0:00-0:18] Bannister remembers the name of Ronnie Burnet, [0:19-4:27] Bannister talks about Johnny Wardle getting sacked from Yorkshire and meeting with Wardle to get his story.

Track 6: [0:00-2:02] Bannister talks about getting Johnny Wardle's side of the story and narrowly avoiding Ronnie Burnet, [2:03-4:04] Bannister talks about Johnny Wardle giving his opinion on throwing, [4:05-5:19] Bannister talks about being friends with Don Bradman.

Track 7: [0:00-1:31] Bannister talks about being friends with Don Bradman, [1:32-4:37] Bannister talks about living his life the same all over again, his retirement and journalism as a profession.

Track 8: [0:00-2:02] Bannister tells a story of being a young journalist and sometimes covering football, [2:03-2:09] Closing remarks.







A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
Alex Bannister
David Rayvern Allen
Evelyn Maitland Wellings
Sir Neville Cardus
Alan Ross
John Charles Woodcock
Arthur Alexander Thomson
James M Kilburn
Daily Mail
Ian Wooldridge
John Ronald Burnet
John Henry Wardle
Sir Donald George Bradman
Subject
Journalism, cricket writers, apartheid, MCC in Australia 1954-1955, press facilities
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 32 minutes 57 seconds
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