#40from40: John Cleese

Test Match Special

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4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Actor and comedian John Cleese joins Brian Johnston for a memorable interview during a Test match Headingley in 1986.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.6	Classic View From The Boundary
0:07.6	On BBC Sounds
0:09.6	Welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast and our series Classic View From The Boundary.
0:14.8	I'm Jonathan Agnew.
0:15.8	We've got a real treat for you today with an interview from 1986 with one of Britain's
0:21.2	biggest comedy stars.
0:23.8	Star of Monty Python and Faulty Towers, John Cleese watched the entire morning session
0:28.1	on the back of the old, headingly commentary box as England on their way to a heavy defeat
0:32.6	at the hands of Cappoldeves India.
0:35.3	Once lunchtime arrived, Cleese squeezed himself in alongside Brian Johnston.
0:39.8	No keen eye on cricket.
0:41.9	Well, I wish I spent a bit more time watching it because I did get very intrigued by it.
0:46.3	It's a wonderful game.
0:48.0	And I lost contact with it a few years after I stopped playing.
0:50.8	I mean, I only stopped playing really after Cambridge and I never played for anybody good at
0:54.7	Cambridge, just my college.
0:56.0	Is anybody good at Cambridge?
0:57.3	Oh, there were a few good ones at the time.
0:59.3	It was really just a year or more or less.
1:02.3	But I went off to America and I lost.
1:04.0	It was funny.
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