Dickie Bird
From Barbra Streisand to Pavarotti. Cricket umpire Dickie Bird shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From April 1996.
From Barbra Streisand to Pavarotti.
Cricket umpire Dickie Bird OBE shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley.
Dickie Bird umpired 65 Test matches, 92 one-day internationals and three world cup finals.
He tells Sue Lawley about his church-going childhood in Barnsley, and his anxieties about punctuality - arriving as he has done at least four hours before time at Buckingham Palace, Chequers and The Oval.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.
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