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		<id>https://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Brian_Johnston&amp;diff=34437&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Kurt at 04:38, 4 February 2023</title>
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		<updated>2023-02-04T04:38:31Z</updated>

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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 23:38, 3 February 2023&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| name        = Brian Johnston&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| name        = Brian Johnston&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Kurt: /* Other TV and film work */</title>
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		<updated>2023-01-16T22:08:03Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Other TV and film work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 17:08, 16 January 2023&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Johnston variously presented and participated in a wide range of BBC radio and television programmes. These included the [[Royal Command Performance]] of ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' in 1978. Johnston was also one of the presenters of the [[Channel 4]] magazine programme for the over sixties for several years  ''Years Ahead'' along with [[Robert Dougall]], [[Zena Skinner]] and [[Paul Lewis (broadcaster)|Paul Lewis]]. He appeared as himself in the 1952 British film ''[[Derby Day (1952 film)|Derby Day]]''. In 1989 he lent his famous voice in the [[List of Inspector Morse episodes#Series 3 (1989)|tenth episode]] of ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]''.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Johnston variously presented and participated in a wide range of BBC radio and television programmes. These included the [[Royal Command Performance]] of ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' in 1978. Johnston was also one of the presenters of the [[Channel 4]] magazine programme for the over sixties for several years  ''Years Ahead'' along with [[Robert Dougall]], [[Zena Skinner]] and [[Paul Lewis (broadcaster)|Paul Lewis]]. He appeared as himself in the 1952 British film ''[[Derby Day (1952 film)|Derby Day]]''. In 1989 he lent his famous voice in the [[List of Inspector Morse episodes#Series 3 (1989)|tenth episode]] of ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]''.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1982 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] in London's Sloane Square.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1982 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] in London's Sloane Square.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==One-man live performances==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==One-man live performances==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Kurt</name></author>
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		<title>Kurt: /* External links */</title>
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		<updated>2023-01-16T22:07:47Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;External links&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 17:07, 16 January 2023&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[http://www.johnners.com/brian-johnston-johnners-trust/ The Johnners Trust]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[http://www.johnners.com/brian-johnston-johnners-trust/ The Johnners Trust]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/b-travers.html Brian Johnston interviews Ben Travers]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/b-travers.html Brian Johnston interviews Ben Travers]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Kurt</name></author>
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		<title>Kurt at 17:11, 4 October 2022</title>
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		<updated>2022-10-04T17:11:36Z</updated>

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'''Brian Alexander Johnston''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|MC}} (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed '''Johnners''', was a British [[cricket]] commentator, author, and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the [[BBC]] during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Early life==&lt;br /&gt;
Johnston was born at the Old Rectory, [[Little Berkhamsted]], [[Hertfordshire]], the youngest of four children (elder siblings were Anne, Michael and Christopher). His paternal grandfather, Reginald Eden Johnston, had been Governor of the [[Bank of England]] between 1909 and 1911.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Barry |title= Johnners: The Life of Brian |page=9 |year=2003 |publisher=Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton |location=London |isbn=0-340-82470-0 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The [[World War II]] [[1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)|airborne division commander]] [[Frederick Browning|Frederick 'Boy' Browning]] was his first cousin.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Brian |title= Someone Who Was |page=66|year=1992 |publisher=Methuen |location=London |isbn=0-7493-1099-5 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; On 27 August 1922, his father, [[Lieutenant-Colonel]] Charles Evelyn Johnston, [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]], [[Military Cross|MC]], who managed the family coffee business, drowned at [[Widemouth Bay|Widemouth Sands]] near [[Bude]], [[Cornwall]] at the age of 44.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;The Times (Monday, 4 September 1922), p. 5; (Wednesday, 30 August 1922), p. 15.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In 1924, his mother married one of her husband's military colleagues, Captain Marcus Scully, who became his stepfather. After the marriage ended in divorce, she reverted to her original married name.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Education==&lt;br /&gt;
Johnston was educated at [[Temple Grove School|Temple Grove Preparatory School]] (1920–25)&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Brian Johnston, ''A Further Slice of Johnners'' (2011, {{ISBN|1448114071}}), p. 7&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and then at [[Eton College|Eton]] (1925–31), where he played cricket for the school's 2nd XI. He subsequently went on to [[New College, Oxford]] (1931–34), where he graduated with a third in History in 1934.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Brian |title= It's Been a Lot of Fun |pages=45 and 52 |year=1974 |publisher=W.H.Allen |location=London |isbn=0-491-01471-6 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; At Oxford he was a keen cricketer, keeping wicket for his college team, Oxford Authentics, and also for the Eton Ramblers and [[I Zingari]], but he never managed to progress to the [[Varsity team|Varsity]] side.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Pre-war employment==&lt;br /&gt;
After Oxford Johnston joined the family's coffee business, where he worked until 1939 but admitted years later that he had little interest or liking for the work. After a year at head office in the [[City of London]] he was transferred to the [[Hamburg]] office in 1935 as [[Germany]] was an important market for [[Brazil]]ian coffee.&lt;br /&gt;
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The following year he travelled to [[Santos, São Paulo|Santos]] in [[Brazil]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Brian |title= It's Been a Lot of Fun |page=56 |year=1974 |publisher=W.H.Allen |location=London |isbn=0-491-01471-6 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; where he worked in the company office for 18 months. However, in 1938 he was struck down with an acute neurological condition and had to return to [[London]]. After several months' convalescence he returned to the City office in October but resigned the following year to join the army on the outbreak of the [[Second World War]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Second World War==&lt;br /&gt;
In September 1939 Johnston joined the 2nd [[Battalion]] [[Grenadier Guards]], and was sent for officer training to the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. Following this, he was posted to the Grenadiers Training Battalion, based at [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]], in the spring of 1940, where he served as a Technical Adjutant. His unit was due to join the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War II)|British Expeditionary Force]] in [[France]] during May but these plans were overtaken by the retreat from [[Dunkirk]]. He remained stationed in the United Kingdom until the invasion of [[Europe]] in the summer of 1944, when his battalion landed at [[Arromanches]] on the [[Normandy]] coast some three weeks after [[D Day]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Brian |title= Letters Home 1926-1945 |page=316 |year=1998 |publisher=Weidenfeld &amp;amp; Nicolson |location=London |isbn=0-297-84127-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In the winter of 1944 and early spring of 1945 Johnston and his armoured division were in the thick of the allied advance, crossing the [[Rhine]] and fighting their way up to [[Bremen]] and [[Hamburg]]. He was later awarded the [[Military Cross]] in 1946 for his actions as technical adjutant after the battalion crossed the Rhine. Tanks were frequently stranded in the marshy ground and he was responsible for recovering these, and battle-damaged tanks, often under fire.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=37442 |supp=y|page=638|date=24 January 1946}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/image/Index/C9471023?index=1&amp;amp;page=0|title=Recommendation for Award for Johnston, Brian Alexander|website=Discovery|publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]]|date=24 January 1946|access-date=18 July 2013|url-access=subscription }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==BBC career==&lt;br /&gt;
Brian Johnston joined the [[BBC]] in January 1946 and began his cricket commentating career at [[Lord's]] for BBC Television in June 1946 at the [[Indian cricket team in England in 1946|England v India Test match]].&lt;br /&gt;
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===General light entertainment===&lt;br /&gt;
In these early years, Johnston was an occasional presenter of other BBC shows, including ''[[Come Dancing]]'' and ''[[All Your Own]]''. Between 1948 and 1952 Johnston presented a live broadcast segment ''Let's Go Somewhere'' as part of the Saturday night radio series ''[[In Town Tonight]]''. In some he stayed alone in the [[Madame Tussauds|Chamber of Horrors]], rode a circus horse, lay under a passing train, was hauled out of the sea by a helicopter and was attacked by a police dog.&lt;br /&gt;
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He was also part of the radio commentating team for major state occasions such as the funeral of [[King George VI]] in 1952, the [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]] in 1953, the Sovereign's annual birthday parade, the annual [[El Alamein]] reunion and in due course the royal weddings of [[Princess Margaret]], [[Princess Anne]] and the [[Prince of Wales]]. He also appeared on other radio programmes such as ''[[Sporting Chance]]'', ''Treble Chance'', ''[[Twenty Questions]]'', ''Married To Fame'', ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' and occasionally as an outside broadcast interviewer for the [[Today (BBC Radio 4)|''Today'']] programme.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Cricket commentator===&lt;br /&gt;
Johnston became a regular member of the TV commentary team and, in addition, became BBC cricket correspondent in 1963. In that year he also met and mentored his future TMS colleague the late [[Christopher Martin-Jenkins]], who sought his advice about how to become a cricket commentator while still at school. From 1965 onwards Johnston split his commentary duties between television (three Tests) and radio (two Tests) each summer. In 1970 Johnston was dropped from the TV commentary team and he retired from the BBC two years later on his sixtieth birthday. However, he continued to appear in a freelance capacity as a member of the team for the radio broadcasts, ''[[Test Match Special]]'' (TMS) for the next 22 years. Johnston was responsible for a number of the TMS traditions, including the creation, often using the so-called [[Oxford &amp;quot;-er&amp;quot;]], of the [[nickname]]s of fellow commentators (for example, [[Jonathan Agnew]] is still known as &amp;quot;Aggers&amp;quot;, [[Henry Blofeld]] as &amp;quot;Blowers&amp;quot;, and the late [[Bill Frindall]] (&amp;quot;the Bearded Wonder&amp;quot;) as &amp;quot;Bearders&amp;quot;). He once complained on air that he had missed his cake at tea during one match, and was subsequently inundated with cakes from listeners. The TMS team has continued to receive cakes from listeners ever since.&lt;br /&gt;
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===''Down Your Way''===&lt;br /&gt;
In 1972 he was asked to stand in as the host of the long-running Sunday evening radio programme ''[[Down Your Way]]'' (first broadcast in 1946) when [[Franklin Engelmann]], who had hosted the programme since 1953, died very suddenly. He went on to host a further ten editions before leaving to commence his last full-time summer as the BBC cricket correspondent. He was compulsorily retired from the BBC in September of that year having reached his 60th birthday. He was then contracted in a freelance capacity to host ''Down Your Way'' on a permanent basis since four other hosts trialled over the summer had proved to be less popular than him. He went on to present this programme for 15 years before bowing out on his 733rd show (equalling Engelmann's tenure) in May 1987 just before his 75th birthday. The final show featured [[Lord's Cricket Ground]] and included an interview with his old friend [[Denis Compton]]. A valedictory photograph was taken showing Johnston standing in front of the Lord's scoreboard, which showed 733 under the icon of Last Man to commemorate the event.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thereafter the programme continued to be broadcast for a further five years, with a different celebrity host every week, before it was finally taken off the air in 1992.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Commentary humour===&lt;br /&gt;
Johnston was renowned for his on-air schoolboy humour and puns. In one incident during a [[Test cricket|Test]] match at [[the Oval]] in 1991, [[Jonathan Agnew]] suggested that when [[Ian Botham]] was out [[hit wicket#Notable dismissals|hit wicket]], trying to hurdle the stumps, it was because he had failed to &amp;quot;get his leg over&amp;quot; (a British slang term meaning to have sex; Botham's sexual exploits had attracted national attention). Johnston carried on commentating and giggling for 30 seconds before dissolving into helpless laughter.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Listen to [https://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/fungames/audio/legover.mp3 mp3] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327060445/http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/fungames/audio/legover.mp3 |date=27 March 2009 }}.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVTpX7LdZQ|title=Jonathan Agnew (Aggers) &amp;amp; Brian Johnston - Test Match Special Legover outtake|website=[[YouTube]]}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Among his other gaffes were: &amp;quot;There's Neil Harvey standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle&amp;quot;, which he uttered when [[Neil Harvey|Harvey]] was representing [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]] at the [[Headingley Cricket Ground|Headingley]] Test in 1961.&amp;lt;ref name=chatt&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Brian |title=Chatterboxes: My Friends the Commentators |year=1984 |publisher=W H Allen &amp;amp; Co|location=London |isbn=0-352-31493-1}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The oft-cited quote &amp;quot;The bowler's Holding; the batsman's Willey&amp;quot; supposedly occurred when [[Michael Holding]] of the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] was bowling to [[Peter Willey]] of [[English cricket team|England]] in a [[Test cricket|Test match]] at [[The Oval]] in 1976. Johnston claimed not to have noticed saying anything odd during the match, and that he was only alerted to his gaffe by a letter from &amp;quot;a lady&amp;quot; named &amp;quot;Miss Mainpiece&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=chatt/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Brian |title= It's Been a Piece of Cake|year=1990 |publisher=Methuen |location=London |isbn=0-7493-0293-3 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; According to [[Christopher Martin-Jenkins]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book|last=Martin-Jenkins |first=Christopher |title= Ball by Ball - The Story of Cricket Broadcasting|year=1990 |publisher=Grafton Books|isbn=0-246-13568-9 |page=160 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; his Cricinfo biography,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;cricinfo&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15526.html |title=Brian Johnston &amp;amp;#124; Cricket Players and Officials &amp;amp;#124; ESPN Cricinfo |publisher=content-uk.cricinfo.com|access-date=13 April 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and the biography by Johnston's son Barry,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book|last=Johnston |first=Barry |title= Johnners - The Life of Brian |year=2003 |publisher=Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton|isbn=0-340-82471-9 |page=367 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Johnston never actually made the remark. [[Barry Johnston (writer)|Barry Johnston]] says &amp;quot;It was too good a pun to resist ... but Brian never actually said that he had spoken the words on air.&amp;quot; Holding himself has expressed his doubt about the phrase ever being said, pointing out that no recording of it exists. [[Henry Blofeld]] and former TMS Producer [[Peter Baxter (radio producer)|Peter Baxter]] said that Johnston did not come up with the phrase and did not say it during commentary.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0a-FOoM9ms  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/D0a-FOoM9ms |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live| via=YouTube | title=Blofeld &amp;amp; Baxter &amp;quot;The bowler's Holding the batsman's Willey&amp;quot;  | date=11 April 2014 | access-date=6 February 2015}}{{cbignore}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Apartheid in South Africa==&lt;br /&gt;
During 1970 and 1983, Johnston said that he disapproved of the boycotts of [[South Africa]] by England cricket teams as he believed that sport and politics should not be mixed.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15526.html |title=Brian Johnston &amp;amp;#124; England Cricket &amp;amp;#124; Cricket Players and Officials |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=13 April 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He had disagreements with [[John Arlott]] who backed the boycotts. Apartheid was ended shortly after Johnston's death.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Other TV and film work==&lt;br /&gt;
Johnston variously presented and participated in a wide range of BBC radio and television programmes. These included the [[Royal Command Performance]] of ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' in 1978. Johnston was also one of the presenters of the [[Channel 4]] magazine programme for the over sixties for several years  ''Years Ahead'' along with [[Robert Dougall]], [[Zena Skinner]] and [[Paul Lewis (broadcaster)|Paul Lewis]]. He appeared as himself in the 1952 British film ''[[Derby Day (1952 film)|Derby Day]]''. In 1989 he lent his famous voice in the [[List of Inspector Morse episodes#Series 3 (1989)|tenth episode]] of ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]''.&lt;br /&gt;
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He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1982 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] in London's Sloane Square.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==One-man live performances==&lt;br /&gt;
Johnston was a great fan of the British [[Music Hall]] and revelled in its often mildly risqué &amp;quot;schoolboy humour&amp;quot;. ''An Evening with Johnners'', a one-man show that he performed towards the end of his life, was recorded and released, and reached number 46 on the [[UK Albums Chart]] in March 1994, two months after his death.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;British Hit Singles &amp;amp; Albums&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
| first= David&lt;br /&gt;
| last= Roberts&lt;br /&gt;
| year= 2006&lt;br /&gt;
| title= British Hit Singles &amp;amp; Albums&lt;br /&gt;
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| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited&lt;br /&gt;
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| isbn= 1-904994-10-5&lt;br /&gt;
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==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
On 22 April 1948 Johnston married Pauline Tozer, sister of his former army colleague Gordon. They had five children (Andrew, Clare, Barry, Ian and Joanna). His youngest daughter, Joanna, has [[Down's syndrome]]. He was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1983 and [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1991. Pauline died in Sonning, Berkshire in September 2013 at the age of 90.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Death==&lt;br /&gt;
In the autumn of 1993 Johnston undertook a series of UK theatre tours, entertaining live audiences as a [[raconteur]]. On the morning of 2 December 1993, whilst in a taxi going to [[Paddington station]] en route to Bristol where he was due to fill a speaking engagement, he suffered a massive [[heart attack]]. The taxi driver drove him straight to the nearest [[Maida Vale]] hospital where he was revived after suffering a cardiac arrest. When he was revived, Johnston was moved to [[St Mary's Hospital, London|St Mary's Hospital]], Paddington where he remained until 14 December. He was then transferred to the [[King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes|King Edward VII Hospital for Officers]] until he was discharged on 23 December. A few days later, Johnston met the taxi driver at his home and thanked him. However, he was readmitted to hospital on 4 January after complaining of breathing problems and feeling unwell.&lt;br /&gt;
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Brian Johnston died at 6.30 on the morning of 5 January 1994, at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in [[Marylebone]], [[London]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;GRO Register of Deaths: JAN 1994 B29C 7 WESTMINSTER - Brian Alexander Johnston, DoB = 24 June 1912 aged 81&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' described him as &amp;quot;the greatest natural broadcaster of them all&amp;quot;, and British Prime Minister and cricket fan [[John Major]] said that &amp;quot;Summers simply won't be the same without him&amp;quot;. A memorial service was held in a packed [[Westminster Abbey]] on 16 May 1994 with over 2,000 people present.&lt;br /&gt;
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==The Johnners Trust==&lt;br /&gt;
As a memorial to Johnston, his family together with some eminent members from cricket and broadcasting, established a trust fund to further causes close to Johnston's heart. The Johnners Trust (originally the Brian Johnston Memorial Trust) was established in 1995 to promote cricket in schools and youth clubs, to help young cricketers requiring financial support and to promote disabled cricket. The trust is now part of the [[Lord's Taverners]]. The Johnners Club was also established in his memory at the same time and currently has over 350 members, plus a further 100 regular supporters. The trust's income is boosted significantly from the proceeds of the annual Johnners Club Dinner in the Long Room at Lord's Cricket Ground, member subscriptions, and general donations.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Bibliography==&lt;br /&gt;
*Autobiography: ''It's Been a Lot of Fun'' (published by WH Allen in 1974, with an updated version appearing in 1985)&lt;br /&gt;
*Autobiography: ''Someone who was: reflections on a life of happiness and fun'' (first published by Methuen in 1992 with reprints in the same year)&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Taken from the book in question&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Let's Go Somewhere''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Stumped for a Tale''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''The Wit of Cricket''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Armchair Cricket'' (co-authored with [[Roy Webber]])&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;First published [[BBC]] (British Broadcasting Corporation) - No date given, but c. 1960 in small paperback&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* ''It's a Funny Game''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Rain Stops Play''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Brian Johnston's Guide to Cricket''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Chatterboxes''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Now Here's a Funny Thing''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''It's Been a Piece of Cake''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''The Tale of Billy Bouncer'' (with [[Tony Hart]])&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Brian Johnston's Down Your Way''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Forty-Five Summers''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''I Say, I Say, I Say''&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Views from the Boundary'' (edited by Peter Baxter)&lt;br /&gt;
* ''More Views From the Boundary: Celebrity Interviews from the Commentary Box'' (edited by Peter Baxter)&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;A Book published by Methuen in 1993 and reprinted several times and sub-titled ''of BBC Test Match Special''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* ''Summers Will Never Be The Same: A Tribute to Brian Johnston'' (edited by Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Pat Gibson)&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;First published by Partridge Press (UK) and reprinted several times in 1994&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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* Heald, Tim (1995). ''Brian Johnston: The Authorised Biography'', Methuen. {{ISBN|0-413-69320-1}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/test_match_special/legends/2939054.stm  BBC Test Match Special Legends]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.johnners.com Official Brian Johnston web site]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.bcew.co.uk Blind Cricket]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.johnners.com/brian-johnston-johnners-trust/ The Johnners Trust]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/b-travers.html Brian Johnston interviews Ben Travers]&lt;br /&gt;
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