Squeezing the Orange

Name: Squeezing the Orange
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Henry Blofeld
ISBN: 9780007535644

Author: Henry Blofeld

Narrator: Henry Blofeld

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/26/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, Sports & Recreation, Cricket, Biography & Autobiography, Arts & Entertainment, Performing Arts, Radio, Humor

Synopsis

The quintessentially English cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and national treasure, fondly known as “Blowers”, tells his colourful life story. Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE, nicknamed “Blowers” by the late Brian Johnston, is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. His distinctively rich, cut glass voice and his vividly eccentric observations of life on and off the pitch, have made him a household name, not only in Britain but around the world, wherever cricket is played. Blowers has been close the the heart of the game for over fifty years and his career has taken him to the far corners of the earth. This autobiography, stuffed to the gunwhales with delicious anecdotes, brings his astonishingly colourful story bang up to date.

About Henry Blofeld

Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE, nicknamed “Blowers” by the late Brian Johnston, is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He has been a cricket writer for over 45 years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan

Read with Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin These books are as unlike each other as Winston Peters and an alcohol free day. One of these is a day of political duty and the other a night of impolitic drinking. I love reading and reading should be an activity of harvesting disparate genres, opinions and activit......more

Goodreads review by Robert

Very entertaining.......more

Goodreads review by Steve

A wonderful, funny and brilliant book by one of a generation who use phrases like "my dear old thing! and remember seeing Bradman play at Lords. I love TMS and find it interesting to get to know a bit more about the man behind the voice. Blowers didn't disappoint me in the least. Colourful, amusing,......more

Goodreads review by Philip

A thoroughly enjoyable read. Blowers writing gets better the older he gets! Having read a number of his books this is probably the most enjoyable to date. There is still a very obvious and deep love of cricket which runs through the book, but here is a more personal view of the multiple personalitie......more

Quotes

‘Blowers is the master of “painting a picture” … An irresistible adventure, a tribute to optimism, fine living and good friends’ Independent ‘No one knows or cares more about radio or can write about it with such wit, love and grace’ Stephen Fry