Dennis Silk interviewed by Jo Rice

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/177

Date:

2005-11-09

Level of description

item

Extent

1 CD: 35 minutes 28 seconds

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)

Scope and Content

1 CD, Dennis Silk, cricketer and schoolmaster, interviewed by Jo Rice. The CD consists of 7 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:11] Introduction by Rice, [0:12-1:05] Silk talks about being the only MCC President to have been born in the United States of America, [1:06-1:57] Silk talks about growing up in the United States of America, [1:58-2:30] Silk talks about going to prep school in Wales and Christ's Hospital, [2:31-3:14] Silk talks about playing cricket at Christ’s Hospital with Jack Bailey and John Stephenson, [3:15-5:13] Silk talks about playing cricket for Cambridge University.

Track 2: [0:00-1:10] Silk talks about playing cricket for Cambridge University against Middlesex, [1:11-5:41] Silk talks about playing in the varsity match against Oxford University.

Track 3: [0:00-0:41] Silk talks about beating Oxford University, [0:42-1:07] Silk talks about his feelings for Lord's, [1:08-1:37] Silk talks about going into teaching and maintaining a relationship with Lord's, [1:38-3:15] Silk talks about going on the 1957-1958 MCC tour to East Africa, [3:16-5:08] Silk talks about other MCC tours he went on including captaining the 1960-1961 tour to New Zealand.

Track 4: [0:00-0:49] Silk talks about nearly becoming secretary of MCC, [0:50-1:38] Silk talks about being warden at Radley College, [1:39-2:09] Silk talks about being nominated as MCC President, [2:10-3:23] Silk talks about being the first of the 2 year presidents, [3:24-4:36] Silk talks about the countries he visited as MCC President.

Track 5: [0:00-2:13] Silk talks about members being angry at Jack Russell and David Gower being excluded from England, [2:14-2:40] Silk talks about avoiding major issues during his presidency, [2:41-5:05] Silk talks about being President of the International Cricket Council and the South Asian countries demanding for the world cup to be taken to Asia and demanding MCC steps down from running the ICC.

Track 6: [0:00-0:35] Silk talks about female membership, [0:36-1:12] Silk talks about experiencing a calm 2 years during his presidency, [0:36-1:57] Silk talks about selecting Roger Knight as MCC secretary, [1:58-3:21] Silk talks about getting told off by Colonel Rait Kerr for not dressing appropriately enough for Lord's when at Cambridge, [3:22-5:08] Silk talks about how Lord's used to have a forbidding feeling and troublesome members.

Track 7: [0:00-1:43] Silk talks about selecting Sir Oliver Popplewell as his successor and how he would love to see Doug Insole and Johnny Woodcock be MCC President, [1:44-2:42] Silk talks about the opinion that the press would not make good MCC presidents, [2:43-3:00] Closing remarks, [3:01-4:37] Silk talks about the role of MCC President when he goes overseas.




Background microphone noises during interview. A back-up copy of this CD is included.

Associations

Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk
Jonathan Rice
Christ's Hospital
Lieutenant Colonel John Robin Stephenson
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Robin Geoffrey Marlar
Radley College
David Ivon Gower
Robert Charles Russell
International Cricket Council
Roger David Verdon Knight
Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr
Sir Oliver Bury Popplewell

Subject

MCC presidents, school cricket, Varsity Match, MCC in East Africa 1957-1958, MCC in New Zealand 1960-1961, membership, women membership

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 CD: 35 minutes 28 seconds

Hierarchy browser

• David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
  
  • Dennis Silk interviewed by Jo Rice (MCC/AAL/3/177)