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Batting on the Bosphorus: A Skoda-powered Cricket Tour Through Eastern Europe by Angus Bell (Omnibus)

Inspired after an encounter with a psychic, Angus Bell begins his cricket trip with a game played on ice. Read by Robert Laing.

Scottish sports writer Angus Bell's account of a cricket tour to unusual places.

It's a gloriously batty adventure involving fingerless fielders in the Czech Republic, Serbian MI6 agents and the realisation that England's most eccentric game is being played with passion in the strangest corners of the continent.

Taking his inspiration from an encounter with a psychic, young Scottish sports writer Angus Bell begins his tour with a cricket match on ice.

Omnibus of five episodes, abridged by Laurence Wareing.

Read by Robert Laing.

Producer: Kirsty Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2008.

1 hour, 10 minutes

On radio

Sun 19 Jul 202607:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Jul 202607:30
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  • Mon 20 Jul 202602:30
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