Ian Botham

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 5 November 1989

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

If you were told that this week's Desert Island Discs castaway took ballet lessons as a child, was a moderately angelic choirboy and now plays golf, badminton and cricket, as well as walking long distances for charity, the name of Ian Botham might well not spring immediately to mind. But it will indeed be Mr Ian Botham who'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his exploits on and off the cricket field, as well as discussing his ambition to captain the England team again.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.0	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1989,
0:11.0	and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a cricketing hero. He bowls fast, hits big and lives hard, all of which
0:36.6	have established him at the age of 33 as the most eye-catching all-rounder of our time.
0:42.2	At the moment he's out of commission dropped from
0:44.8	England's winter tour of the West Indies, but when he comes back as he plans to do he
0:49.3	intends to push his total test wickets to 400 which will be another record but then making and
0:55.5	breaking records are all part of the game for Ian Botham.
0:59.4	Ian you need another 24 wickets I think to make it 400?
1:02.8	I think that's right Sue.
1:03.8	When do you intend to make to take those?
1:06.5	I hope I get the opportunity this summer.
1:08.2	I'm going to train very, very hard after Christmas.
1:10.5	As you can see, I'm not exactly in a peak of fitness at the moment, but come Christmas into the strict routine, train very very hard, and hopefully come out firing on all cylinders.
1:20.0	How big a disappointment was it then not being chosen to play this winter?
1:24.0	Personally, it wasn't that great a disappointment because I hadn't particularly played that well this summer
1:28.6	and I hadn't played very much cricket at all because I spent half the summer recovering from having my face smashed.
1:34.2	So I wasn't that surprised.
1:36.9	The thing that baffled me though is why spend three months talking me into making
1:40.9	myself available to go on tour than not to pick me.
1:43.7	That I don't understand.
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