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    Ashes broadcasts to Australia

    LOL - I actually made a comment along those lines in my previous post, then deleted it. Where Gideon is concerned, why use something as mundane as 'beautiful' when you can impress everyone with 'pulchritudinous'? :)
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    Ashes broadcasts to Australia

    Thanks again - that nails it for me. Every booklet since 1947? That's impressive. As for the point about commentators getting a little past it, I tend to find that aspect among a few writers on the game, whose opinions and sense of self-importance rises with their reputation.
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    Ashes broadcasts to Australia

    Brilliant. Thanks to you both for clarifying that for me. You wouldn't have the ABC guide for 85 to tell you if it was McGilvray or Maxwell on duty in 1985? Is Jim Maxwell still at it? I've been away from Australia for over twenty years, so I haven't listened to any radio broadcasts for a long...
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    Ashes broadcasts to Australia

    Under the covers too? lol I used to do that as well when I was around the same age, but about a decade a earlier. Problem is, was that Henry working for BBC, or popping up for the ABC? I was in England during that series - very painful for an Aussie! And I only just missed out by a matter of...
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    Ashes broadcasts to Australia

    Not sure if anyone here is old enough to remember, but I'm trying to recall the radio broadcasts for the Ashes in the 1970s and 80s. As I recall, Australians used to get the BBC commentary team for games played in the UK - AM and shortwave - while Alan McGilvray and friends would do the home...

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