By what nickname is broadcaster Henry Blofeld better known?
"Henry Blofeld Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, OBE (born 23 September 1939) nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is a retired English sports journalist, broadcaster and amateur ornithologist best known as a cricket commentator for ""Test Match Special"" on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and has authored eight books to date. Blofeld's family were landowners at Hoveton in Norfolk and he was the youngest of three siblings. His elder"
"Kermit Schafer Kermit Schafer (March 24, 1914 – March 8, 1979) was an American writer and producer for radio and television in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for his collections of ""bloopers""—the word Schafer popularized for mistakes and gaffes of radio and TV announcers and personalities. Bloopers came into prominence in 1931, when radio announcer Harry Von Zell mispronounced the name of the then-President of the United States, Herbert Hoover, as ""Hoobert Heever"" on the air, but Schafer's is believed to be the first attempt at collecting and presenting them. Other similar famous finds of Schafer's include"
"outfits, which he ascribes to partial colour blindness. Blofeld celebrated his 70th birthday by hosting an evening show in front of 2000 paying ""guests"" at the Royal Albert Hall, with appearances on stage by friends such as ""TMS"" commentator Jonathan Agnew, who narrated the event live, West Indian commentator Tony Cozier, TV personality Stephen Fry, cricket journalist John Woodcock, TV celebrity Christine Hamilton and his elder brother, former High Court Judge Sir John Blofeld. In January 2015 Blofeld was a guest, and the winner, on the BBC One's comedy series ""Room 101"". In December 2017 he was a guest on"
"brother, Sir John Blofeld, became a High Court judge. Henry's father (Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld, 1903–1986) was at Eton with Ian Fleming and his name is believed to have been the inspiration for the name of James Bond supervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Blofeld is a distant relative of the Honourable Freddie Calthorpe, a former England Test captain, but, contrary to common belief, he is not Calthorpe's nephew. Blofeld was educated at Sunningdale School in Berkshire and at Eton College, in Buckinghamshire, followed by King's College at the University of Cambridge, but failed both his final exams ""by an innings"". Blofeld"
"Bottom from Monique Panchaud de Bottomes, gives Pett Bottom, where Charmian lives. Pett Bottom is also the name of a real place which amused Fleming when he stopped for lunch after a round of golf at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich. Ernst Stavro Blofeld's name partially comes from Tom Blofeld, a Norfolk farmer and a fellow member of Fleming's club Boodle's, who was a contemporary of Fleming's at Eton. Tom Blofeld's son is Henry Blofeld, a sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for ""Test Match Special"" on BBC Radio. For Blofeld's pseudonym in the novel, Dr. Guntram"
"of the week and presents features on topics such as cricket terminology and the sport's influence on the Bollywood film industry. The BBC's Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld appears in each episode with his 'tales from the test', where he shares stories from his travels. In one episode, Blofeld describes how he drove from London to Mumbai in a vintage Rolls Royce. His tale of a tea interval in Cyprus where the players were served Retsina made for an interesting evening session. Charu Sharma replaced Prakash Wakankar as the All India Radio presenter for the first half of the"
"Like an Atom Bomb"", which was included on the Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age compilation. Lowell Blanchard Lowell Blanchard (November 5, 1910 – February 19, 1968) was an American radio presenter and performer. Blanchard, a native of Chicago, Illinois, was a station manager and popular show host for WNOX-AM Radio in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was inducted into The Country Music On-Air Personality Hall of Fame in 1977. He is said to have given country performers Henry D. Haynes and Kenneth C. Burns their stage names, Homer and Jethro, after forgetting their stage names during a 1936"
"he joined the ""Test Match Special"" team. He had also previously commentated for ITV in the 1960s. Blofeld has been a regular commentator for ""TMS"" since 1972, except for a period at BSkyB from 1991 to 1994. Blofeld's cricket commentary is characterised by his plummy voice and his idiosyncratic mention of superfluous details regarding the scene, including things such as construction cranes or numbers of pink shirts in the crowd; as well as pigeons, buses, aeroplanes and helicopters that happen to be passing by. After the tea and lunch breaks he is also known to talk for extended periods of"
"John Blofeld (judge) Sir John Christopher Calthorpe Blofeld (born 11 July 1932) is an English barrister and former High Court judge. His family were landowners in Norfolk and he was born at Hoveton Home Farm in Norfolk. His father (Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld, 1903-1986) was at Eton with Ian Fleming and his surname is believed to have been the inspiration for the name of James Bond supervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He is the brother of cricket commentator Henry Blofeld. He is a distant relative to the cricketer Hon. Freddie Calthorpe and not his nephew as previously suggested; his son is"
"Wood in the 1960s and ""Citizen's Bloppers"", a spoof of the then-current CB craze in 1977. He edited a number of books transcribing bloopers, with some books covering certain themes such as bloopers from classified advertising and television broadcasts. Kermit Schafer Kermit Schafer (March 24, 1914 – March 8, 1979) was an American writer and producer for radio and television in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for his collections of ""bloopers""—the word Schafer popularized for mistakes and gaffes of radio and TV announcers and personalities. Bloopers came into prominence in 1931, when radio announcer Harry Von Zell"
"the stressful environment of a movie or television set, with some actors expressing extreme annoyance while others enjoy the stress relief brought on by the unexpected event. One of the earliest known bloopers is attributed to 1930s radio broadcaster Harry Von Zell, who accidentally referred to then-US President Herbert Hoover as ""Hoobert Heever"" during an introduction. Reportedly it was upon hearing of this mistake that Kermit Schafer was inspired to begin collecting bloopers, although the exact circumstances of the event have been debated. A similar situation occurred decades later when then-new president Gerald Ford was introduced as ""Gerald Smith"", the"
"happened in Fleming's novels, a number of names were taken from people of whom he had known. Ernst Stavro Blofeld's name partially comes from Tom Blofeld, a Norfolk farmer and a fellow member of Fleming's club Boodle's, who was a contemporary of Fleming's at Eton. Tom Blofeld's son is Henry Blofeld, a sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio. Additionally, when Largo rents his beachside villa, it is from ""an Englishman named Bryce"", whose name was taken from Old Etonian Ivar Bryce, Fleming's friend, who had a beachside property in Jamaica called"
"Peter Frankenfeld Peter Frankenfeld (born ""Willi Julius August Frankenfeldt"" on 31 May 1913 in Berlin – 4 January 1979 in Hamburg) was a German comedian, radio and television personality. After World War II he became an interpreter with the U.S. military government. In 1948 he went into broadcasting. He pioneered quiz programs on West German radio and television, becoming the country's best-known programme host and entertainer. He is remembered for some classic sketches such as ""Der Überzieher"" (about a man getting in trouble in a restaurant because he has to constantly guard his overcoat), ""Die Bürgschaft"" (his bumbling attempt to"
"Henry Blofeld offered on the BBC Radio 4 series ""Just a Minute"" that ""Ian took my father's name as the name of the baddie."" Blofeld has three appearances in Ian Fleming's novels. He first appears in a minor role as the leader of SPECTRE in the 1961 novel ""Thunderball"". The plot that he formulates is carried out by his second-in-command Emilio Largo. Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly , who had previously been a champion amateur weightlifter in his youth before becoming obese in middle age; he has black crew-cut hair, black eyes (similar to those"
"Arthur Godfrey Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead. An infamous on-air incident undermined his folksy image and resulted in a marked decline in his popularity. At the peak of his success in the mid-1950s, Godfrey helmed two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television mid-morning show, but, by the early 1960s, his presence had been reduced to hosting the occasional TV special and his daily network radio show, which ended in 1972. One of the medium's"
"Lowell Blanchard Lowell Blanchard (November 5, 1910 – February 19, 1968) was an American radio presenter and performer. Blanchard, a native of Chicago, Illinois, was a station manager and popular show host for WNOX-AM Radio in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was inducted into The Country Music On-Air Personality Hall of Fame in 1977. He is said to have given country performers Henry D. Haynes and Kenneth C. Burns their stage names, Homer and Jethro, after forgetting their stage names during a 1936 broadcast on WNOX. In April 1950, Blanchard and the Valley Trio recorded a version of the song ""Jesus Hits"
"each summer. In 1970 Johnston was dropped from the TV commentary team and he retired from the BBC two years later on his sixtieth birthday. However, he continued to appear in a freelance capacity as a member of the team for the radio broadcasts, ""Test Match Special"" (TMS) for the next 22 years. Johnston was responsible for a number of the TMS traditions, including the creation, often using the so-called Oxford ""-er"", of the nicknames of fellow commentators (for example, Jonathan Agnew is still known as ""Aggers"", Henry Blofeld as ""Blowers"", and the late Bill Frindall (""the Bearded Wonder"") as"
"radio shows nationally from 2014 to 2016. His most popular television shows were CVN's 'SoldOutrageous' where Cremeans and his late night band of characters took to the airwaves to sell anything from gold to electronics and HSN's Sunrise Morning Show where he cohosted with Lynn Murphy. His moniker ""The Doctor of Shopology"" was given to him by a caller during his early days as a host. His broadcast career started while he was a senior in high school when he worked at a local radio station - WIXK & WIXK-FM in New Richmond, Wisconsin doing part-time night and weekend announcing."
"cadetship. His first job was as a cadet reporter at radio station 4BC in Brisbane from 1994 to 1995. He then moved briefly to Melbourne radio station 3AW before starting his television career in 1995, as a Sky News Australia producer, where he remained until 1997. From 1997 until 1999, Boland served as the Cairns Bureau Chief of Network Ten, gaining notoriety for interviewing comedian Jerry Seinfeld at Cairns Airport. Before working on Sunrise, Boland was a senior producer in ATN-7's Sydney newsroom. From February 2002 until November 2010, Boland was the executive producer for the Seven Network's breakfast show"
"talk show doctors credit him for being a trailblazer. Schoenfeld has been the primary care physician to several famous individuals, including Timothy Leary, Hunter Thompson, and David Crosby. Schoenfeld now practices psychiatry in San Rafael, California, where he lives with his wife and daughter. Eugene Schoenfeld Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, known as Dr. HipPocrates (born 17 March 1935 in New York City), was a popular underground newspaper columnist in the 1960s. Publisher Max Scherr of the ""Berkeley Barb"" was a friend of Schoenfeld's, and it was Max's idea to have a column addressing questions about human health and behavior posed by"
"Eugene Schoenfeld Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, known as Dr. HipPocrates (born 17 March 1935 in New York City), was a popular underground newspaper columnist in the 1960s. Publisher Max Scherr of the ""Berkeley Barb"" was a friend of Schoenfeld's, and it was Max's idea to have a column addressing questions about human health and behavior posed by readers. Max also suggested the moniker Dr. Hip. Inquiries regarding new health concerns during the Sexual Revolution and the drug culture of the Sixties were the most common, and Dr. Hip's advice was refreshingly straightforward and nonjudgmental. Upon returning from Africa to the Bay"
"Jerry Seinfeld Jerome Allen Seinfeld ( ; born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is known for playing himself in the sitcom ""Seinfeld"", which he created and wrote with Larry David. As a stand-up comedian, Seinfeld specializes in observational comedy; in 2005, Comedy Central named Seinfeld the ""12th Greatest Stand-up Comedian of All Time."" Seinfeld produced, co-wrote and starred in the 2007 film ""Bee Movie"". In 2010, he premiered a reality series called ""The Marriage Ref"", which aired for two seasons on NBC. He is the creator and host of the web"
"engulfed and lost to the fire and the team had to be rescued by the LAFD. Henry joined the NBC 4 staff in January 1994 (just several days after his 48th birthday), replacing John Beard as anchor of the 4 p.m. news and also as a reporter. In 1997, Henry replaced Jess Marlow on the 6 p.m. newscast, which he continues to do every night in addition to the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts after the retirement of Paul Moyer. Henry is also well known for hosting (and executive-producing) ""Travel Café"", a travel program in which he flies all around"
"Seinfeld Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City, the show features a handful of Jerry's friends and acquaintances, including best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), friend and former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is often described as being ""a show about nothing"", as many of its"
"with the Radio 2 presenter Sarah Kennedy, who began by corresponding with his father. Through letters to Sarah from Henry himself, his father and ""the Lady Agrippa"" (a nickname for his mother), listeners were kept up to date on his career. A recording of his voice announced her regular ""It's Showtime!"" slot of tunes from the musicals at about 6.45am GMT – originally he , and a whole repertoire of different recordings was later added. He also occasionally appeared live on her show, and co-hosted with her as part of the annual charity appeal Children in Need. Henry was a"
"carved out a career commentating on all manner of sports. Since 2004, he has been a radio host on Melbourne's dedicated sports radio station, SEN – first with ""Hungry for Sport"", a morning show playing on his nickname of ""Hungry"", and then with ""KB and the Doc"" in the afternoon with John ""Dr Turf"" Rothfield beginning in 2018. He also commentates Saturday and Sunday matches for SEN. He previously had hosted the breakfast program on Sport 927 until 2003. He commentated on cable-TV for Fox Footy and was the host of the popular nostalgia show ""Grumpy Old Men"" on Fox"
"to set up his own private intelligence organisation. During the war, he sold information to both sides. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort, and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. Blofeld then moved temporarily to South America before founding SPECTRE. In the John Gardner novel ""For Special Services"", Blofeld is depicted as having had a daughter with a French mistress named Nena. It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father, with whom Fleming went to school."
"series (1997–2002). The 1999 ""The Powerpuff Girls"" episode ""Cat Man Do"" also features a supervillain with a cat, though it is the feline that turns out to be the criminal mastermind. In ""The Penguins of Madagascar"", the recurring villain Dr. Blowhole is a parody homage to Blofeld. Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation"
"mainly written by Seinfeld, as he (and Larry David in Seasons 1 through 7) rewrote the drafts for each episode. Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Jerry Seinfeld Jerome Allen Seinfeld ( ; born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is known for playing himself in the sitcom ""Seinfeld"", which he created and wrote with Larry David. As a stand-up comedian, Seinfeld specializes in observational comedy; in 2005, Comedy Central named Seinfeld the ""12th Greatest Stand-up Comedian of All Time."" Seinfeld produced, co-wrote and"
"Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to by the codename Number 1 within this organisation. The character was originally written by Fleming as a physically massive and powerfully built man, standing around and weighing 21.6 stone (about ), who had become flabby with a huge belly. Blofeld appears"
"Harry von Zell Harry Rudolph Von Zell (July 11, 1906 – November 21, 1981) was an American announcer of radio programs and an actor in films and television shows. He is best remembered for his work on ""The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"", and for once mispronouncing President Herbert Hoover's name on the air, a slip that was exaggerated on a later comedy record album. Harry von Zell was born July 11, 1906, in Indianapolis, Indiana, where his father was a sports reporter. The family moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where von Zell graduated from high school. Later, the"
"was publicised, a further two hundred mugs were produced with King Juan Carlos on the other side and were snapped up by Warwickshire fans. Fans during the Ashes series of 2005 also regularly sang ""Y viva España"" in Giles' honour. Giles was, until that successful run of form, also gently derided by commentators: the BBC's Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld famously labelled him a ""Wheelie bin"" because of his trundling run-up, much to Giles' disgust. Blofeld however, insisted that the moniker was not malicious. (It was originally bestowed on Giles by ""The Guardian"" journalist David Hopps.) In 2005, he"
"minor celebrity under the nickname ""The Blooper Man"". Schafer has come under criticism from TV and radio historians who have noted his deceptive presentations in his albums. If Schafer could not obtain an actual audio recording of the event (as many of these bloopers occurred live and were not always transcribed onto recordings), he would simply hire actors and recreate the event—without offering any disclaimer. This led to some misrepresentations. For example, the blooper by Harry Von Zell described above was not recorded, so Schafer recreated it. Schafer is historically remembered for an unwittingly libelous dramatization of an incident that"