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Classic View From The Boundary On BBC Sounds

Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew, welcome along to another classic

View From The Boundary from Test Match Special. As cricket lovers were used to watching the

clock throughout the morning and keeping an eye on when players due to start, and for

millions of listeners to BBC Radio 2 is a similar feeling as they look forward to 1030 when

it's time for pop master, the iconic Radio Music Quiz.

Well the long time presenter of Radio 2's Mid-Morning Program and host of pop master is

Ken Bruce. Born in Glasgow, Ken has worked for Radio 2 since 1980 and was inducted into

the Radio Hall of Fame in 2008. And in 2013 he popped up to CS at a test between England

and New Zealand at Headingly and began by talking about his love of sport on the radio.

I got into several sports because of the radio commentaries, because of the quality

of the radio commentaries. I was always a bit of a tennis fan as well, but it was only

when I heard Max Robertson doing Wimbledon commentaries and I thought, cross-court,

could hardly keep up with it, how he could do it. I don't know, but I just thought it was

a magnificent bit of broadcasting and TMS has a different feel to it, a different kind

of aura around it. But the sport is always there, it's always important, it's always

a sacrifice act, but around it you have this marvelous conversational, discursive style

which is just, there's nothing quite like it. Which could only happen on Radio.

I mean you couldn't possibly do this on television, but Radio is all about personal communication,

one-to-one communication. In days gone by during the war, people used to sit around their

radios and listen to it, something like that. Before or five of them, that's not happened

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