Penguins Stopped Play

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a b Bennun, David (5 September 2008). "Censorship? How I mourn for Monkey Dust". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 September 2012. I happened upon this book by chance and was intrigued with the concept and by the challenge itself.

Coren, Victoria (12 June 2005). "Having cancer is like a big hard bastard has invited me outside the pub, and when I get there he's brought two of his mates". The Observer . Retrieved 17 September 2012. In a 2005 episode of Have I Got News For You, featuring Alexander Armstrong as host and Fi Glover and Ian McMillan as guest panellists, a message stating "In Memory of Harry Thompson, the first producer of Have I Got News For You (1960–2005)" was displayed. I was however impressed with the calibre of the opposition and grounds they were able to play at and the left of effort involved to successfully carry out the tour. Gaisford, Sue (27 October 1994). "Leader of a tiny, respectable gang: 'Richard Ingrams Lord of the Gnomes' – Harry Thompson". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022 . Retrieved 17 September 2012. This book was thus a race against the ultimate deadline. Thompson opted to say very little about his predicament, showing admirable stoicism - Captain Scott with a hint of Captain Oates - but questionable literary judgment. It made it harder for his tale to shake off Berkmann's shadow.A leopard seal, perhaps the most fearsome predator of the southern ocean, hauled itself up on an ice floe to take a gander. Ignore the "seal" bit — think "leopard"... Imagine the head of Ridley Scott's Alien atop the body of Mike Gatting after a particularly hefty tea. The ups and downs of playing sport with your friends - from the joys of just actually scoring to the lows of being let down at crucial points. Greater than the sum of its parts and the closest a book has ever brought me to crying. One of the best sports books ever written.

Harry Thompson also produced non-comedy documentaries for BBC Radio. He made several programmes with writer/presenter Terence Pettigrew, starting with anniversary tributes to Hollywood icons James Dean ( You're Tearing Me Apart) and Montgomery Clift ( I Had The Misery Thursday). Pettigrew and Thompson subsequently worked together on a second series of documentaries, including on national service ( Caught in the Draft), and also about the evacuation of children from major British cities during the Second World War ( Nobody Cried When The Trains Pulled Out). Both programmes were presented by Michael Aspel. [ citation needed] I thought Glen McCready did a wonderful job of reading the book, giving us a range of accents for the great diversity of people we met. Funny and heartwarming, this is a dying mans tribute to a sport, and more importantly a team, that he loved. Thompson's book does roam wider. When Berkmann left to start a splinter club, Thompson carried on captaining Captain Scott, so he has several more years of club memories to milk. And the world tour carries him away from the village greens of England to take in Singapore, Buenos Aires and Antarctica. Sketching each stop with deft relish, Thompson almost launches another genre - the picaresque comic memoir of sporting incompetence. It is part sports commentary, part humour and part travelogue as you slowly warm up to the rag-tag team, then get angry with them and then cheer them on with a fair degree of exasperation.Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth A biographer and novelist, Thompson wrote six books: an investigation into the story of The Man in the Iron Mask; a biography of Hergé with a commentary on his Adventures of Tintin series; biographies of Peter Cook and Richard Ingrams; a novel, This Thing of Darkness; and the semi-autobiographical Penguins Stopped Play.