Previous suspensions have seen radical changes proposed, some of which were rejected only to be introduced later when the opportunity to capture public attention had already passed
The most popular book in the makeshift library at the Tarsao prisoner of war camp was a bible, the second a copy of the 1939 Wisden Almanack. It belonged to Jim Swanton and so many people wanted to borrow it that he’d only lend it for six hours at a time.
He had carried the book with him from
Britain, through Nova Scotia and
South Africa, to
Singapore, where he was captured by the Japanese. Swanton repaired it over and again, bound it with rice paste and recovered it with rubber. He used it to invent pretend radio commentaries for the other internees and as the basis for a lecture on “The Life of Bradman”.