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Test Match Special: Ball by Ball

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Rory Bremner looks back at 50 years of BBC Radio coverage of Test Match cricket.

Cricket enthusiast Rory Bremner looks back at, what is for many, a vivid herald of summer - Test Match Special. From May 2007.

Rory Bremner looks back at 50 years of BBC Radio coverage of British test match cricket.

'Test Match Special' has seen a rich variety of commentators, including the poetic elegance of John Arlott, the japes of Brian Johnston and the exuberance of Jonathan Agnew. 

For some the atmosphere has resembled that of an elite club, but for thousands of others the experience has been as vivid a depiction of summer as the smell of cut grass.

Producer: Tom Alban

First broadcast ion BBC Radio 4 n May 2007 to mark Test Match Special's 50th anniversary.

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