Go through BY JONATHAN AGNEW AND FOREWORD Go through WITH THE MAGNIFICIENT STEPHEN FRY WITH SURPRISE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JONATHAN’S TEST MATCH SPECIAL COLLEAGUES!! Perfect for cricket enthusiasts everywhere, Thanks a lot Johnners is definitely a warm and witty tribute to Brian Johnston and his period in the helm of Check Match Special.

Go through BY JONATHAN AGNEW, FOREWORD BY STEPHEN FRY AND SPECIAL Visitor APPEARANCES FROM Check MATCH SPECIAL COLLEAGUES. The Test Match Unique on-air incident, in which Jonathan Agnew’s comment on about Thanks, Johnners: An Affectionate Tribute to a Broadcasting Story Ian Botham’s attempt to avoid moving on his stumps – ‘He simply couldn’t quite obtain his knee over’ provoking extended suits of giggles, especially from Brian Johnston, has been voted the greatest piece of showing off commentary ever. The camaraderie between ‘Aggers’ and ‘Johnners’ became immortalised through that broadcasting traditional, but there is a much deeper bond between the two males, as this exciting book reveals.

Jonathan Agnew had developed to the sound of Johnston, Arlott, and a young Martin-Jenkins et al on TMS as he followed his father around on the family farm, ear glued towards the transistor radio, however the two men met formally only once Agnew joined the BBC team at Headingley in 1991.

Thus began a great working partnership which, fuelled with a mutual passion for the noble video game, bridged the generation difference and ended just with Johnston’s sudden death in 1994. As this publication demonstrates therefore convincingly, Johnners’s wit, comfort and feeling of fun was an attribute not merely of his cricket commentaries, but also in the way he resided his life. His impact on ‘Aggers’ is actually recognisable in the same amiable and informal way his successor presents Test Match Particular today.

Thanks, Johnners is normally a rich blend of biography and anecdote, of antics and dramas on and off the pitch, in and from the commentary container, its pages filled with stories about the fantastic titles of cricket including Fred Trueman, Geoffrey Boycott, Vivian Richards, Michael Holding and Ian Botham. Just as TMS is the sound of summer, so Thanks, Johnners may be the fresh air flow rippling the very long grass of kept in mind pleasures.