His Listeners Never Heard the Ending - Jonathan Blakeley
So Jonathan Blakeley didn’t pick up a commentary mic until he was 34. During lockdown, living on his own and working in COVID test centres, he wrote to every non-league football club in London asking if they needed a commentator. He ended up at Kingstonian FC.
We talk about calling games sat right in among the fans, a playoff semi-final that pulled in his biggest audience yet (and how much of it his listeners actually got to hear), and how he fits overnight shifts around live commentary. He also explains how audio description commentary for blind and low vision supporters changed the way he…
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