Henry Blofeld: An Evening with Blowers

Monday 1st September 2008 | 6.45pm book tickets

Total event running time approximately 2 hours (screening approximately 1hr 20)

Henry Blofeld is visiting the Phoenix cinema to introduce a premiere screening and launch of the new DVD of his live show.

Henry Blofeld journalist, cricketer, broadcaster and author will make his debut on DVD this autumn, featuring his much loved one man show. Known to millions for nearly 40 years of cricket commentating, he is without doubt one of the great English personalities of our time.

If P.G. Wodehouse were alive today, he would have written a character called Henry Blofeld. Charming, delightfully witty with an anecdote for every occasion “Blowers” – as he is affectionately known - is as quintessentially English as St George, Windsor Castle and roast beef.  With his distinctive rich voice and famous expression “My Dear Old Thing” he is notorious with listeners not just for his cricket commentary but, when weather stops play, for his musings on a variety of subjects that include pigeons, planes, double decker buses, cake and of course wine!

In his  hugely entertaining one man show “An Evening With  Blowers”  he takes the audience back to  his early idyllic childhood in Norfolk and his eccentric parents, through his school days and discovering cricket,  to Cambridge and  an early career in the city which he later deserted for a life in cricket journalism and eventually commentary. He recounts these charming tales in his unique and inimitable way featuring an array of colourful characters that have peppered his interesting life.

From encounters with Noel Coward and Ian Fleming to infamous stories on his contemporary broadcasters the legendary Brian Johnston (who nicknamed him Blowers) and John Arlott, Blowers offers up a four course meal of anecdotes, tall tales, shaggy dog stories and philosophies gleaned from a life well lived.

Henry will be signing books, DVD's and bottles of his wine after the screening. Tickets £8 (£5 concessions)