237pp. This fully authorised biography of a man whose career spanned forty-eight years of commentating on royal weddings, state occasions and, most famously, cricket, reveals him as a man of considerable parts and shows the deeper side of Brian not apparent in his public persona. An affectionate portrait of a much loved and much missed phenomenon. Broadcaster, cake lover, Holder of the Military Cross, originator of the most appalling jokes and puns, perennial schoolboy and perpetual optimist. Djkt intact, slt damp blemishes. Drawing on much unpublished material, including Brian Johnston"s own diaries. 47 photo plates.
