Show Notes
More than 40 years ago, Broadcasters Whispering Bob Harris (Radio 1, 2 and The Old Grey Whistle Test) and Jon Briggs (Radio 2, 5, The Weakest Link and the Original Voice of Siri) played cricket in Bob’s back garden.
There were homemade rules, magnificent teas, balls regularly dispatched into next door’s garden... and for reasons nobody can entirely explain Bob kept the scorebooks.
He still has them.
In this first episode we discover where it all began. What happens when you reopen the records of a cricket career you’d completely forgotten you had? And were the peculiar rules of Bob’s garden unique, or did every garden in Britain have its own?
That’s what The Back Garden Cricket Club intends to discover, as we begin compiling the definitive Laws of Back Garden Cricket: the ones the MCC somehow failed to include.
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