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Hello, welcome to another classic view from the boundary from Test match special, our

series celebrating 40 years of interviews with stars from all sorts of backgrounds who

will share a love of cricket.

Well, this episode is one of the real greats and comes from 1987, so Christopher Lee was

without question, one of the true titans of British cinema. In a career that spanned a whole

second half of the 20th century and then went into the 21st, Lee's remembered for his performances

in over 200 major films, notably his Dracula in the Hammer Horror series, as well as in James Bond,

The Wicker Man, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Well, during a horribly rain-affected match

against Pakistan that saw just one innings, so Christopher came to the old commentary box at

Lords above the pavilion and took a seat next to Brian Johnston, stand by for an enchanting

half an hour. Welcome back to Lords, where our visit to the day was once described as tall,

dark and gruesome, which is rather unfair description of Christopher Lee famous, unfairly again, I think,

for his parts in horror films, but he's a very fine actor and he's certainly tall, he's certainly

dark, but there's no sign of any gruesome, very nice secrets for him. Thank you Brian,

and your MACD dressed or I said Tyron and all that. That's in memory of happier days,

of better days of cricket I can assure you. Just bring us up to date with your cricket yourself,

I mean when did you play at school, you were at School of Wellington? Yes, I started to learn

cricket at my prep school, which was Summer Fields at Oxford, yes indeed, and I think that's where

I was taught to play. Unfortunately, the Berzer, as I think they were calling those days,

of Summer Fields, who was a very good bowler, Mr. Boatel, I remember him vividly,

was extremely good bowler, but he had a rather strange action, which unfortunately,

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