Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam was one from the old school. So old was his school that Teddy Wakelam, as he was more conveniently known, would be accompanied for his BBC broadcasts by another gentleman with the same command of the King’s English and its received pronunciation. The role played by this other gentleman wasn’t to provide sporting analysis, it was to inform listeners where the ball was.
On January 15, 1927, Teddy and assistant provided the first ever running sports commentary for BBC radio. England played Wales at Twickenham. Teddy, a rugby man, would arguably have been more comfortable in this environment than he was a couple of weeks later at Highbury when Arsenal played Sheffield United.
Back to square one
A very great difference now to how things were last spring is the command mechanism.
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