Memories of Test Match Special shared at Leamington’s Assembly

Henry Blofeld OBE is one of international cricket’s best loved broadcasters. His immediately recognisable voice and ability to paint pictures with words have been in demand all over the world since the 1970s.

At 72, he is still on the Test Match Special Team and will broadcast from Lords and Trent Bridge in May.

Blofeld said: “Test Match Special is as much fun to be part of in the commentary box as most people seem to think it is to listen to.

“But, in the box itself there are two different perspectives and with Blowers and Backers on stage they will both come together with, we hope, gales of laughter. Backers produced the show for 34 years, for all of which he was my boss. He brings the ‘behind-the-scenes’ adventures he had in the production process to join my in-front-of-the-microphone stories and high jinks.

“Our blend of stories about TMS at home and abroad will be hilarious and Backers had better watch it as now, at long last, he is no longer my boss.”

Peter Baxter was the organising brain behind and producer of BBC Test Match Special from 1973 to 2007.

He was frequently part of the commentary team and whilst he enjoyed many amusing moments over the years, being locked out of the ground by the groundsman at Galle, in Sri Lanka, in 2001 was not one of them.

He and BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew eventually watched the action from a nearby fort.

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