The voice of Test Match Special and English cricket's most trusted narrator
CricketFor more than three decades, Jonathan Agnew has been the voice that millions of English summers are measured by. The long-serving BBC cricket correspondent turned a Radio 4 commentary box into something close to a national institution.
Before the microphone came the cricket ball. Agnew took 666 first-class wickets for Leicestershire and played three Tests for England in the mid 1980s, sharing dressing rooms with Botham, Gower and Willis. He retired from the first-class game in 1990 and walked almost straight into the Test Match Special team, where he has been ever since.
The Agnew legend was cemented by a single on-air moment, the 'Aggers, do stop it' corpsing with Brian Johnston after Ian Botham 'failed to get his leg over' at The Oval in 1991. It remains one of the most played clips in British broadcasting history. What has kept him there, though, is the depth behind the laughter, the eye for a cricketer's technique, and the warmth he brings to every session.
Off the air, Agnew is a countryman, a horse rider, an author of several well-regarded cricket books, and in recent years an advocate for better mental health support in professional sport. He was awarded an MBE in 2016 for services to broadcasting and charity.
A Steam lunch with Aggers is a guided tour of English cricket's last 40 years, told by the man who has watched almost every significant moment from the best seat in the house.
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