The Amazing Test Match Crime - Adrian Alington,Peter Thompson

Category: Full Cast, Humor, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: British Radio Comedy cricket Crime Humour

Written by Adrian Alington, Peter Thompson
Read by Brian Johnston
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

No, not the Ozzies stealing an underhand run out!

Dramatised by Peter Thompson from the book by Adrian Alington. A dastardly plot to destroy the British by striking at the game of cricket is investigated by Test Match Special commentator Brian Johnston.

Synopsis:
England is agog with excitement as the final Test Match against Australia draws near, but no corner of the land has the fate of the Ashes closer to its heart than the village of Wattlecombe Ducis, Glebeshire.

It was here at the Manor House that Norman Blood, captain of England, spent his childhood playing cricket with the vicar’s radiant daughter, Monica. And it was she who presented young Joe Prestwick with a belt on the occasion of his first game of cricket. As Sir Timothy Blood remarked, ‘I would rather see the whole village dead at my feet than a man bowling in braces.’

With a short- but sensational- career behind him, Joe just needs to be selected to play at the Oval for Monica to marry him: everything depends on the Test.

But The Bad Men, Europe’s most wanted gang, have no intention of letting the best team win. Sawn-off Carlo, the Professor and Ralph the Disappointment (an Englishman who, knowing the rules of the Game, is eternally damned for not playing by them) plan to strike a blow at the very heart of proud Albion and her Empire.

The Amazing Test Match Crime is a wicked yet affectionate comedy of cricketing (and criminal) manners, proving- as if proof were needed- that a straight bat and nimble spinning finger will always win through.

Cast:
Narrator Brian Johnston
Joe Prestwick Tom Wilkinson
Monica Pretwick Madeleine Smith
Norman Blood Trevor Nichols
Sir Timothy Blood Garrard Green
The Professor Bill Paterson
Ralph ‘The Disappointment’ Nicholas Le Preveau
‘Sawn-off’ Carlo Danny Schiller
Alice Alice Arnold
Bill Travers James Faulkner
Alf Blowman Brian Miller
Mr. Leftbridge Peter Darlson

Directed by Jane Morgan.

Adrian Alington (1895-1958) was a crime writer, and author of The Amazing Test Match Crime, which was inspired by his years playing County Cricket for Oxfordshire during the 1920s. He also wrote and adapted his own novels for screen and television during the 1950s.

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