Penguins Stopped Play
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Penguins Stopped Play is a semi-autobiographical book by Harry Thompson
that details his adventures with the "Captain Scott
XI" amateur cricket side as they attempt to play cricket on every continent on the planet except Antarctica (where Thompson had previously played an informal game of cricket during an unsuccessful attempt to reach the real Scott's Antarctic base, the circumstances of that game giving rise to the book's title).
The paperback of the book is published in the UK by John Murray publishers
, which is part of the Hodder Headline
group. ISBN 978-0-7195-6346-1. The book retails for a recommended price of £7.99.
The book was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week
from 24–28 April 2006, and was featured in the Pick of the Year for 2006, the annual version of Pick of the Week
An audio CD of the book is also available, read by Green Wing
star, Julian Rhind-Tutt
.
Harry Thompson
Harry William Thompson was an English radio and television producer, comedy writer, novelist and biographer....
that details his adventures with the "Captain Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
XI" amateur cricket side as they attempt to play cricket on every continent on the planet except Antarctica (where Thompson had previously played an informal game of cricket during an unsuccessful attempt to reach the real Scott's Antarctic base, the circumstances of that game giving rise to the book's title).
The paperback of the book is published in the UK by John Murray publishers
John Murray (publisher)
John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...
, which is part of the Hodder Headline
Hodder Headline
Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing company. It was founded in 1986 by Tim Hely Hutchinson, and acquired Hodder & Stoughton in 1992 to form Hodder Headline. It was acquired by Hachette Livre, from the WHSmith Group PLC, in 2005....
group. ISBN 978-0-7195-6346-1. The book retails for a recommended price of £7.99.
The book was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week
Book of the Week
Book of the Week is a BBC Radio 4 series broadcast daily on week days. Each week the selected book, always a non-fiction work, is read in five episodes; each fifteen-minute episode is broadcast in the morning and repeated overnight . The Act of Worship replaces the morning broadcast on...
from 24–28 April 2006, and was featured in the Pick of the Year for 2006, the annual version of Pick of the Week
Pick of the Week
Pick of the Week is a Canadian anthology television series which aired on CBC Television from 1967 to 1969.-Premise:Selected episodes of CBC's prime time series were rebroadcast in this weekday morning time slot such as Man Alive, Newsmagazine, The Public Eye, Singalong Jubilee and This Land...
An audio CD of the book is also available, read by Green Wing
Green Wing
Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt....
star, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt is an English actor. He is best known for his starring role as "Mac" McCartney in the comedy television series Green Wing, the second series of which finished on Channel 4 in May 2006...
.