MCC - Cricket's House of Lord's The Marylebone Cricket Club has been a private club with a public function for 200 years now. Although it has relinquished its benign dictatorship over the game, it is still a powerful influence on it, not least in its guardianship of the laws.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins looks at MCC's history, which is the story of the game itself, at its characters, its mystique and its role today.
Producer PETER BAXTER
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday. You can also hear a shortened version today at
1.10pm on Radio 3)