David Rayvern Allen

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David Rayvern Allen
Born(1938-02-05)5 February 1938
Died9 October 2014(2014-10-09) (aged 76)
OccupationsCricket writer and historian, radio producer, presenter and speaker

David Leonard Rayvern Allen (5 February 1938 – 9 October 2014)[1] was a cricket writer and historian, as well as a radio producer and presenter, a speaker and a musician.[2][3][4] His radio productions won awards including the 1991 Prix Italia for Who Pays the Piper, a collaboration with Richard Stilgoe.[5] He died aged 76 in 2014.[6]

Life and career

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Allen was born in Streatham, London, and went to school at Sir Walter St John's School, Battersea.[1] He gained external music diplomas from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.[1]

Allen spent his working life as a radio producer with the BBC, working on a wide range of programmes before retiring in 1993.[7] Later, as a member of the MCC's Arts and Library committee, he was largely responsible for the club's Audio Archive Project, a collection of several hundred interviews with cricket people; he conducted more than a hundred of the interviews himself.[7]

He won several awards for his cricket biographies.[1] His Wisden obituary said of them that he was "conscientious, readable, judicious" and that he "did not flinch from the less agreeable aspects of his subjects' characters".[7]

He married Rosemary Clark in 1966. They had two daughters.[1]

Works

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Radio

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With Richard Stilgoe

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  • Used Notes[9]
  • Music on the Brain[9]
  • The Singing Wheelchair[9]
  • Hamburger Weekend (1984)[9]
  • Who Pays the Piper (1991)[9][10]
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  • A Song for Cricket (1981) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • The "Punch" Book of Cricket (1985) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Cricket on the Air: A Selection from Fifty Years of Radio Broadcasts (1985) BBC Books Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Arlott on Wine (1987) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (with John Arlott)
  • Peter Pan and Cricket (1988) Constable & Co Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Sir Aubrey: A Biography of C. Aubrey Smith - England Cricketer, West End Actor, Hollywood Film Star (1st 1982), J. W. McKenzie, (2nd 1987), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).;[11] augmented edition: limited to 150 (2005),[12] 2010: Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[13]
  • The Guinness Book of Cricket Extras (1988) (with Honor Head), Guinness Publishing Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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  • Jim: The Life of E. W. Swanton (2004) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • The Second Lord's Cricket Ground: Home of MCC, 1811-1813 (2006) MCC[14]
  • Songs of Cricket (2011) mentor for this Signum CD by cantabile - the London Quartet with guests Rory Bremner, Tim Rice, Richard Stilgoe, Alex L'Estrange, Eliza Lumley and Chris Hatt

Other

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  • Punches on the Page: A Boxing Anthology (1998) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Living with London (2012) Methuen Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (with Nick Botting)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Michael Down "David Rayvern Allen obituary", The Guardian, 26 October 2014
  2. ^ "English-Speaking Union Hosts Lecture"[permanent dead link] ENCToday.com March 20, 2007
  3. ^ "Book of the Year 2011 Winner Announced" Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine The Cricket Society
  4. ^ "Eleven Lords a-batting"
  5. ^ Prix Italia winners 1949-2010 Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine RAI
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  7. ^ a b c "Obituaries", Wisden 2015, p. 175.
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  9. ^ a b c d e Richard Stilgoe website
  10. ^ Who Pays the Piper BBC Radio 2 listings 1991
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  14. ^ MCC Publications Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine

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