Brian Johnston

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Brian Alexander Johnston MC (June 24 1912 - January 5 1994) (known as Johnners) was a cricket commentator for the BBC from 1946 until his death. Born in Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, he was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford and joined the BBC in January 1946, after service with the Grenadier Guards in the Second World War in which he won the Military Cross. On 27 August 1922 his father drowned at Bude, Cornwall at the age of 44.

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