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Penguins Stopped Play

Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World

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Penguins Stopped Play

By: Harry Thompson
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
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 It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of 11 men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe - except that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, cunning Bajan drug dealers, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiotic Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, and whole armies of pitch-invading penguins, you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for.

Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt (Doctor Mac from BBC2's Green Wing), Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great madcap enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.

© The Estate of Harry Thompson; (P) John Murray Cricket Sports Witty Funny Comedy Christmas
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An entertaining account of a round the world club cricket tour. Middle order collapses are something all great club teams share.

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