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|  |  John Major In this edition, we listen to extracts from an interview with John Major, the British Prime Minister before Tony Blair. He's written a book about the history of cricket from the 18th century to the First World War. It's called More Than a Game - The Story of Cricket's Early Years, and, as we hear, he has plenty to say about the ways politics and cricket meet.
Vocabulary from the programme to be class-ridden to follow the class divisions of society to come to terms with something to accept something you don't like the real world the set of situations most people have to deal with in their lives, rather than what happens in stories and films and so on in retrospect thinking about the past in the light of recent knowledge a blanket-ban an unlimited ban cathartic calming and purifying Extras  Programme script (pdf - 20 k) Download this programme (mp3 - 1.8 mb) Read all about cricket * *The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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