The Road Back Home - A Northern Childhood

Informationen zum Autor Sid Waddell! 'The Geordie Lip'! the Moses of the game! was born in Northumberland in 1940. He grew up in a former pit village near Newcastle! the son of a miner. He graduated with a degree in History from Cambridge University! then started out as a TV producer working on Indoor League in the early 1970s. This led to him receiving the back-handed compliment of being asked to be the BBC's lead commentator on all their major BDO televised darts tournaments. He worked for them in this capacity from 1978 to 1993 during which time he also penned the highly successful children's television series Jossy's Giants . Since 1993 he has worked for Sky Television and commentates on all major PDC televised darts tournaments. Zusammenfassung Set amid the pit villages of the North East and stretching from the 1920s, before the author's parents had even met, to the final closing of the mine and his mother's death in 1999, this title paints a picture of a colourful, tight knit community full of good times and hard work, god-fearing women and hard-drinking men.

Product details

• Authors: Sid Waddell, Waddell Sid
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.07.2010
• EAN: 9780091932237
• ISBN: 978-0-09-193223-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, North West England