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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And Geoffrey had kept these diaries of his playing time and John sort of took them in lockdown, I think it was, and turned them into this with Geoffrey, turned them into this.
fantastic sort of uh the goat it's a ghost written book but he cut you know they sort of intertwine and yeah it's a liminal space isn't it because half of it is actually written by jeffrey yeah because they are his diaries yeah and then the other half is an interpretation of jeffrey which who knows how accurate it is but jeffrey was happy with it and he wasn't i mean he was yeah i mean absolutely some of it i think oh god really did jeffrey was jeffrey all right with that apparently
It was.
It was super about Brian Clough, if you're interested.
Football has its own literature as well.
Oh, yeah.
John Symington from North Yorkshire has got in touch.
He says, first time I've got in touch.
I do enjoy the chatter you all have.
The book I was interested in was 500 to 1.
Oh, yeah.
About the famous Australia tour of 81.
It also had an interesting background about the state of the country at the time.
That is a feature of a lot of cricket books that you don't just get.
an arid description everything is done in context and of course 81 we have the context of um you know the poverty de-industrialization margaret thatcher just got it in a city riots i think in a city riots brixton toxteth and the like and so it's sort of it's always placing these sporting events in their social context which is what the david woodhouse book is very good in the caribbean as you
Absolutely, in 53 Forward.
And actually, Stephen Brinkley, his book about the 1926 series, Annie, you'd have read that for judging a couple of years ago.
Yeah, I mean, the Brinkley book about 26 is actually as much a book about the general strike as it is about cricket.
So if you're interested in history, I mean, I find out from cricket books so many things about the past that I didn't know.
I mean, your book, Simon, Chasing Jessop.
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