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Outside broadcast cameras visit a Nottingham factory to show craftsmen making cricket bats by methods that have hardly changed in seventy years.
Godfrey Baseley tells the story from willow tree to finished bat, and Peter Cranmer asks a famous cricketer what the expert looks for.

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Presenter:
Godfrey Baseley
Interviewer:
Peter Cranmer
Producer:
John Vernon

BBC Television

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