Mcgilvray the Game Is Not the Same

Alan McGilvray has been Australia’s most celebrated cricket commentator for the best part of three generations. He retired at the end of the 1985 Australian tour of England, having broadcast 225 test matches in a unique career in radio, which began in 1935. To millions he was simply the voice of cricket, a symbol of the Australian summer. McGilvray toured the world with Australian teams and for half a century he made cricket on radio an integral part of the Australian way of life. Rated: G

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Credits

director

Bill Phillips

production company

ABC-TV (Australia)

Duration

01:30:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1985

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300459

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Cricket

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → McGilvray, Alan

People → McGilvray, Alan

Television

Television → Television programs

Television → Television programs → Television programs - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1985

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