A podcast on cricket history looking at early Black and Asian cricketers in England. A book of the series is now available entitled Beyond The Pale: Black and Asian Cricketers in Britain 1868-1945. It is available from Amazon and numerous other retailers worldwide.
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The final part of a Flash Outside the Off Stump wraps up the series and revisits its key themes, including how sport provided a focus whereby England's colonies could assert their nationhood.By Andy Carter
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This episode has less cricket and more social history. It tells the story of Learie Constantine's post cricket career, his contribution to the British War effort and the establishment of an independent Trinidad & Tobago and his twilight years in the late 1960s.By Andy Carter
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The first of two episodes on the life of Learie Constantine, once Britain's highest paid sportsman, and later the first black member of the House of lords.By Andy Carter
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After Ranjisinhji's unsuccessful return to cricket in 1920, it was the turn of a new generation of Indian cricketers to try their luck in English cricket. This episode tells the story of Duleepsinhji and the two Nawabs of Pataudi.By Andy Carter
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