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    Brian Johnston: The Authorized Biography

    By Tim Heald

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    DescriptionHow did it work, exactly, that Johnners magic? Brian Johnston was arguably the most distinctive and best loved voice in British broadcasting. Elder statesman of the Test Match Special team, he was also Britain's most entertaining commentator with an irrepressible and infectious sense of humour. Johnners also had an enviable talent like few other broadcasters of making his listeners feel like close, personal friends.Drawing on Brian Johnston's own papers and other previously unpublished sources as well as conversations with an enormous selection of his friends and colleagues, Tim Heald's fully authorised biography brings to us the many different sides of Johnners and encapsulates brilliantly his truly remarkable life.Praise for Brian Johnston'Tim Heald is a good writer, an assiduous researcher and an experienced biographer... The result is outstanding, so revealing that you have to refer to the dust jacket to reassure yourself this is authorised... There has never been an Englishman quite like Brian Johnston. Tim Heald, without rocking boats or destroying legends, has written a masterpiece which will humanise the legend' Daily Mail'Heald's light touch and anecdotal approach are entirely in keeping with the man -Johnners would have approved' Time Out'Packed as sweetly as some rich cake with... fun and humour... Inspired' The Times'Delightful' Daily Express
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDean Street Press
    Release dateMay 4, 2015
    ISBN9781910570265
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    Brian Johnston: The Authorized Biography
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    Tim Heald

    Tim Heald (b. 1944) is a journalist and author of mysteries. Born in Dorchester, England, he studied modern history at Oxford before becoming a reporter and columnist for the Sunday Times. He began writing novels in the early 1970s, starting with Unbecoming Habits (1973), which introduced Simon Bognor, a defiantly lazy investigator for the British Board of Trade. Heald followed Bognor through nine more novels, including Murder at Moose Jaw (1981) and Business Unusual (1989) before taking a two-decade break from the series, which returned in 2011 with Death in the Opening Chapter. Heald has further distinguished himself with official biographies of Prince Philip and Princess Margaret, as well as accounts of sporting heroes like cricket legends Denis Compton and Brian Johnston. He is also an experienced public speaker. Heald’s forthcoming novel, Yet Another Death in Venice (2014), is the latest in the Bognor chronicles. 

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    • 4/5
      This biography doesn't work. I spent some considerable time trying to work out the reason and, the best with which I can come up, follows;Brian Johnston was one of those chaps who were bigger than his achievements. To hear him broadcast was to discover a lost but much loved uncle. This book suffers from being rather too rosy a picture but, at the same time, if it had gainsaid the legend, I shouldn't have enjoyed that!The second problem with this work is linked to the first, the author was not aquainted with Johnston and so, relies heavily upon other people's stories. They too did not wish to 'dish the dirt' upon a national institution and so, there was little but a eulogy and very little that one did not know before starting the book.Having bben so negative, it was still pleasant to revel in the remembered joy of a Brian Johnston commentary.