Brian Johnston

I bet he's pretty cute once you clean all the shit off of him.

Somebody's been going Brian Johnston, Johnson mode.

Before we get too away from the

start of it, the first signifier that I'm like, oh boy, here we go, was they're at a birthday party.

"Will the Dockers play with two Cox this weekend? The bowler is holding the batsman's white willy.

Brian Johnston." [laughs]

Two Cox.

Uh, no.

Okay.

I did have a good chuckle with you both about Brian Johnston and his weighted blanket.

No intellectual debate in my email, just schoolgirl humor, says Debbie.

Oh, that's all right.

It, it wasn't great.

And I remember Brian Johnston, we, we had a sort of news crossing in those days.

There wasn't Five Live, and I think it was Radio 2 or something came for like a 45-second report or something just as that was kicking off.

And Brian was the most sort of relaxed broadcaster, but this required a 45-second report on a stopwatch, and he did it brilliantly.

And that causes Johnson to crease up and he cannot continue to commentate.

And listening to these schoolboys just giggling outrageously, Johnners and Aggers.

Fantastic.

And what was the other one? The bowlers holding the batsman's willy.

So there's a...

Brian Johnston, the, the commentator, does a kind of lead into a tribute to, to Alan Knott where he says, um, "I think day in and day out, there can never have been a better wicket keeper.

I never saw him have an off day.

He used to prefer to stand back, making some incredible catches, but when he stood up, he was as good as anyone." So I was pondering this as well, and I was thinking, like, with spin, perhaps with spinners, you're more likely to get a wider range of dismissals around the wicket because you've got your bat pad catches, leg side or offside.

Oh, for definitely.

Johnners.

The turquoise-beturbaned Shastri.

Richie Benoist was pretty good at it.

Because they're, you know...

It's Brian Johnson, isn't it? There's a lovely picture of him.

He's got a very sort of red face and an old crumply hat on, and you know he's quite, it, like, comes across as quite a regal, austere man, knows a lot about cricket, and there he's just a giggly little kid.

It's brilliant.

Should we try and find that for next week?

It's 12.06 if you know where it is.

Yeah, yeah, that'd be great if we can get that up today or email russell.6music@bbc.co.uk. We've had loads of really nice texts in about the, uh, that little text match clip that we played by, uh, Jonathan Agnew and Brian Johnson.

Yeah.

And that's something I think that comes with experience.

And, you know, if you look at the top broadcasters, those who would go down to sort of legends, people like Terry Wogan, Brian Johnston in my game.

It didn't matter how many millions of people were listening at the time, but every person felt that he was talking to him or her.

That's a real skill.