Find Out More

ON THE WEB:

www.abc.net.au/calypso/history

A web version of the ABC–TV show Calypso Summer, about the 1960–62 West Indies tour.

www.caribbeancricket.com

‘The independent voice of West Indies cricket’

www.334notout.com/bodyline

The most comprehensive site dedicated to the Bodyline tour and Ashes history.

www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/homes

A list of Australian ‘Girls’ Homes’.

READ:

The novels of Henry James, who said, on what he thought was his deathbed, ‘So this is it at last, the distinguished thing!’

Imagining the Fifties: Hope and Its Discontents in Menzies’ Australia by John Murphy, UNSW Press, 2000

The annual Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack, and other Wisden cricketing publications

Endless Summer:140 Years of Australian Cricket in Wisden by Gideon Haigh, Hardie Grant, 2002

WATCH:

Bodyline: It’s Just Not Cricket The 1984 mini-series starring Gary Sweet as Don Bradman and Hugo Weaving as Douglas Jardine.

VISIT:

The MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground)

Yarra Park, Melbourne

Tours: phone (03) 9657 8864

The website www.mcg.org.au includes a seating map, tour details and history.