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Rich Parry - Swallows and Hawk
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This episode Geoff talks to Dr Rich Parry about his latest book, Swallows and Hawk, which tells the history of South Africa through the medium of MCC cricket tours . Beginning at the end of the nineteenth century Rich tells us how cricket and the development of colonial capitalism went hand in hand throughout the twentieth century on the continent of Africa and how cricket was complicit with, even implicated in the development of the racist state of white majority rule under the apartheid system. There's also talk of the pioneering women's tour of 1961-62 as well as lots of cricket chat, culminating in a discussion of the D'Oliveria Affair.
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