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A Further Slice Of Johnners
When Brian Johnston was a schoolboy, his reports were full of phrases such as 'talks too much in school' and 'apt to be a buffoon'. Later millions of radio listeners would be delighted to discover that some things never changed! Johnners brought his unique wit and personal charm to an enormous range of BBC radio and television programmes for nearly 50 years, from In Town Tonight and Down Your Way to Test Match Special. After Brian died in 1994, Christopher Martin-Jenkins wrote: 'It is hard to believe that anyone in the history of broadcasting has induced such widespread affection'. A Further Slice of Johnners covers Brian's early days, from his childhood in Hertfordshire and his schooldays at Eton and Oxford to his job in the family coffee business in the City and his service with the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War. There is also a selection of the most memorable characters and locations from his fifteen years on the Radio Four programme Down Your Way. Finally there is a collection of Brian's popular 'View From the Boundary' interviews on Test Match Special, including fascinating conversations with Eric Idle, John Major and Peter O'Toole.
Brian Johnston
DescriptionHow did it work, exactly, that Johnners magic? Brian Johnston was arguably the most distinctive and best loved voice in British broadcasting. Elder statesman of the Test Match Special team, he was also Britain's most entertaining commentator with an irrepressible and infectious sense of humour. Johnners also had an enviable talent like few other broadcasters of making his listeners feel like close, personal friends.Drawing on Brian Johnston's own papers and other previously unpublished sources as well as conversations with an enormous selection of his friends and colleagues, Tim Heald's fully authorised biography brings to us the many different sides of Johnners and encapsulates b...
Into the Never-never
"After a long sojourn in China, Brian Johnston arrived in Cairns to join his sister on a campervan trip across the 'top end'. Into the Never-Neveris a beautifully written and often hilarious account of their adventures in the remote outback and on to the coast and the cities, in search of the Australia they knew only from tourist brochures and soap operas. The book is suffused with Johnston's growing affection for the country and its people. It is also shadowed by an acute awareness of Australia s underlying cultural tensions. From warts-and-all accounts of casual racism in the outback to unabashed delight in Sydney s Mardi Gras, Into the Never-Neverpresents Australia s burgeoning cultural diversity in microcosm.In his second traveller's tale, Brian Johnston's dry wit and wonderful descriptive powers are once again in evidence. Whether bogged on a beach in Broome, sightseeing in Canberra with a Laotian friend, or speaking with the traditional owners on a cliff-top in Kakadu, he never loses his keen sense of the absurd and his sensitivity to the nuances of everyday encounters."
Text and Supertext in Ibsen’s Drama
Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one of the major works of the European imagination, comparable in scale to Goethe or Dante. And he has shown Ibsen to be the heir to Romantic and Hegelian art and thought, adapting this heritage to the circumstances of his own day.This work demonstrates how the language and scene, characters and "props," of the Ibsen dramas establish a bold and far-reaching theatrical goal: nothing less than an account of our bi...
Packaging Notes from the DE519N Desk
From industry terms and mathematical equations, to retail display guidelines and press sizes, this book is a quick reference guide to almost anything you will need in your library of information as a Structural Packaging Designer, focusing primarily on the corrugated side of packaging materials. This book consists of information and notes that have been accumulated from over twenty years experience in the Packaging Industry as a Structural Designer. Whether you are a veteran in the industry, or a student just starting out, this book will be a handy resource of guidelines that will assist you along your journey. What can you find inside? - Calculating basis weights of materials, cubic volumes, and stacking strengths - Shipping volumes for Transport Trucks and Sea Containers - Design Thinking and Tips - Box Standards and their tolerances And much more.
Letters Home
The newly discovered letters of Cricket commentator and broadcasting personality, Biran Johnston. When Brian Johnston died in 1995 it was as if a great cricketer had passed on. Standing room only at the Westminster Abbey funeral and a trio of books that raced into the bestseller lists and stayed. But what suprised Heald was how little of his life appeared to exist in written form. Apart from a few fragments, no letters from school, university, early jobs and war. Then in 1996, his widow in clearing their house, came across a box, opening it she found more than 400 letters from Brian to his mother and stepfather dating back to his 1st term at Eton and ending in 1946 as he joined the BBC. Son Barry has now transcribed and edited them. Although the letters date from long before he became famous, the schoolboy humour emerges early, but being at Eton and New College means his future network is ensured: we learn for instance that Alec Dunglass wore 1 of Brian Johnston's shirts when accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938. He is also a good observer of a social scene long since past. the letters are reminiscent of Joyce Grenfell's to her mother, published in 1985 and a bestseller.
Death as a Salesman
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