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Pinter the Cricketer
Pinter the Cricketer
Playwright's portrait in whites is auctioned for charity
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Joe Hill's portrait of Harold Pinter: On its evidence, said Pinter, he should have opened for England
“Cricket was very much part of my life from the day I was born,” Harold Pinter once said, only partly joking. “There was a general feeling about cricket. In the 1930s the whole of England loved cricket, I think – that was my impression as a child, anyway, when I was six months old.”
“Cricket was very much part of my life from the day I was born,” Harold Pinter once said, only partly joking. “There was a general feeling about cricket. In the 1930s the whole of England loved cricket, I think – that was my impression as a child, anyway, when I was six months old.”
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