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Explorers Captain Scott and Roald Amundsen captain teams for an eventful cricket match in Antarctica. Read by Robin Bailey.

"A Norwegian eleven trouncing the English at the summer game and then rubbing their noses in it? That's just not cricket!"

Explorers Captain Scott and Roald Amundsen captain teams for an eventful cricket match in Antarctica.

Robin Bailey reads another of Peter Tinniswood's cricket tales, as the acerbic Brigadier.

Abridged for radio by the author.

Producer: Tony Cliff

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1981.

15 minutes

Last on

Sun 6 Oct 202403:45
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