Great Lives: Douglas Jardine

Series 4, episode 0

Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Peter White discusses the life of the controversial England cricket captain Douglas Jardine, the man responsible for the infamous 'Bodyline' tactics on the 1932 tour of Australia. Christopher Douglas, co-writer and star of Ed Reardon's Week, helps to fill in the biographical gaps