Robin Houston Television, for a number of other ITV companies and for BBC Television. As an announcer he provided the voiceovers for the ITV television shows: For BBC Television he also announced Clive James' New Year specials and "Dame Edna Live at the Palace". As an actor he played the radio announcer warning of a nuclear attack in the 1986 animated film "When the Wind Blows", the newsreader in Kenny Everett's science fiction radio and television serial "Captain Kremmen" and has performed in a number of television dramas, including "Kavanagh QC", "Thursday the 12th", "Holby City", "Dempsey and Makepeace" and "The Gentle
Len Hutton as England captain the first professional captain of England on a tour in the twentieth century. His appointment as captain had been queried at home by those who believed that a professional might captain at home but would be unsuitable to lead a tour. Hutton also encountered problems as the touring party was being selected. Usually, M.C.C. tours had experienced managers; Hutton had expressed a preference for Billy Griffith, the assistant secretary to the M.C.C. who had toured West Indies as a player in 1947–48. The M.C.C. decided that Griffith could not be spared from his duties. Instead, they appointed Charles Palmer, the