Daniel Norcross
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1,852 appearances
19 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Aug
Daniel Norcross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Joanna Biddington her favourite book is Penguin Stop Play by Harry Thompson we mentioned that it's a hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises only an Englishman could have dreamt up for 11 village cricketers to play cricket on all seven continents of the world including Antarctica made all the more poignant caused by the fact that Harry Thompson died shortly
After publication, Felix White wrote a lovely book, It's Always Summer Somewhere.
And, you know, that's a book which, where it is a bit like, Annie, your book about how much cricket changes someone's life, how much it means to them.
I mean, Felix there dealing with his mother.
Yeah, I mean, it's a beautiful book, isn't it?
And I've got another one here from Dave Trussler in Leighton Buzzard.
He loves Fatty Batter by Michael Silkins.
It's ages since that came out, isn't it?
I mean, that's another one of those books which is about hapless teams.
But, you know, there's emotion in those as well, you know, because a lot of it...
You know, it's about elderly try-hards like me hoping for one last moment in the sun.
And, you know, somebody gets a 50 in some game and it means so much to them and it takes them away from all the torments of their daily lives.
I mean, Simon, that's part of what cricket's about, is the escapism.
It is.
There's a book out now, I think, by Olly Randall called Writers in White, which is about literary figures who loved cricket.
So J.M.
Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, these sort of people, Evelyn Waugh, I think, Alec Waugh.
Yes, exactly.
So the cricket's got this reputation of having a fine literature, but it's also got some great literary figures who love the game.
Oh, Edmund Blunder and all that.
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