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Dickie Bird

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

From Barbra Streisand to Pavarotti.

Cricket umpire Dickie Bird OBE shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley.

Dickie Bird umpired 65 Test matches, 92 one-day internationals and three world cup finals.

He tells Sue Lawley about his church-going childhood in Barnsley, and his anxieties about punctuality - arriving as he has done at least four hours before time at Buckingham Palace, Chequers and The Oval.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996. Show less

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