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Classic View From The Boundary On BBC Sounds

Hello, welcome to another podcast from our special series celebrating 40 years of view

from the Boundary interviews.

I'm Jonathan Agnew.

Over the years we've spoken to guests from all over who've had a profound impact on

the world around them, from politicians to musicians, actors to athletes.

Today we're here from someone whose work influenced a whole generation of angst-ridden teens

in the 1980s and continues to inspire and entertain today.

The Secret Dary of Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3-quarters was released in 1982 and within three years

had sold close to two million copies.

Many sequels followed the title character's journey moving alongside real-life events

of the subsequent decades.

Its author Sue Townsend grew up in Leicester and as we'll hear loved cricket from an early

age.

In 2012, two years before her death at the age of 68, I visited Sue at home and she told

me about how and where she listened to Test Match Special.

I always listened to it in the car and in the bathroom.

Because that's where the radios are pre-tuned.

Right.

A lengthy step in the bath.

Yeah.

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