Calling the Shots: How it all began

The Final Word Cricket Podcast · May 1, 2020 · 1h 4m

This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode two, where Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins go right back to the origins of cricket broadcasting, to the very first commentaries between the wars when radio was the only way to keep up and television is a pipe dream. To help us tell that story, we have David Frith, the masterful Anglo-Australian historian and archivist, Jim Maxwell, the voice of cricket on the radio in Australia, and Peter Baxter, who spent four decades working as a producer and broadcaster on…