1. Norman Alan Stewart Gibson was an English journalist, writer and radio broadcaster, best known for his work in connection with cricket, though he sometimes covered football and rugby union.
11 Facts About Alan Gibson
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At various times Alan Gibson was a university lecturer, poet, BBC radio producer, historian, Baptist lay preacher and Liberal Party parliamentary candidate.
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Alan Gibson was born at Sheffield in Yorkshire, but the family moved to Leyton, on the north-eastern outskirts of London, when he was seven, and subsequently to the West Country, where he attended Taunton School.
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Alan Gibson stood as parliamentary candidate for that constituency at the 1959 General election but came third.
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Alan Gibson was briefly a travelling lecturer with University College, Exeter, before getting a job with the West Region of the BBC Radio Home Service.
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Alan Gibson was the narrator for the short documentary film Falmouth for Orders in 1965 and for three episodes of the BBC TV natural history series The World About Us between 1968 and 1973.
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Alan Gibson wrote on cricket at various times for The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Spectator and The Cricketer.
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Alan Gibson reported rugby union, in print and on radio.
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Alan Gibson appeared on the radio shows Sunday Half Hour and Round Britain Quiz.
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Alan Gibson was elected the first President of the Cricket Writers' Club in 1982.
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Alan Gibson married twice: to Olwen Thomas in 1948 and to Rosemary King in 1968.