Ian Smithson
speaker
851 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 May
Ian Smithson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the Queen came out to, I think she was there for the second day of the test match.
So she wasn't there for the opening, but she was there for the second day.
And at lunch, and for those of you who don't understand Test cricket, Test cricket goes for five days and they have two breaks in a day.
They have a lunch break and a tea break.
Lunch is after the first two hours and then tea is after the fourth hour.
And so during the lunch break, they had the Australian team and the English team line up and the Queen went along and shook their hands and had a chat or whatever.
And Australia's opening fast bowler, and we can have this discussion about cricketers later on, Dennis Lilly, who was probably the most famous cricketer in the world at the time, certainly non-English cricketer, he brought his autograph book out and asked her to sign the autograph.
And she shushed him and she just said, I'm not allowed to sign autographs in public.
And he put it back in his pocket and nothing further was said.
And I remember him talking about this years later and he said, and a couple of weeks later I got a letter saying, I'm very sorry, Dennis, I would have loved to have given you this, but if I sign one autograph, here is an autograph book opened with my royal stamp and my signature on the first page for you.
Yeah.
And you sort of think there and go, she sort of gets it.
Like, you know, and that's the pressure that somebody is on under those circumstances where you think, you know, she's got hundreds of public appearances a year and you're going and you're shaking hands or whatever.
You can't, she couldn't have signed Dennis Lilly's autograph book.
Because every person after that would have had an autograph book.
And then it's not the shake of hands.
It takes not five seconds, but two minutes every time.
The irony is that it's not like he was selling his books at the conference.
So, yeah, imagine if you were the queen doing signatures, you'd be like- And there's some people- I know I've seen- And, you know, I harp on about, you know, it's a Canadian TV show and one of their stars, but- Do you want to tell everyone what show it is so they can go check it out?
Heartland.
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