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Enjoy the iconic film ‘Fire In Babylon’ with fellow members for this month’s session from Walkers & Talkers in partnership with Somerset Cricket Foundation. Charting the glorious supremacy of the West Indies cricket team throughout the late '70s and '80s 'Fire In Babylon' proves the bat and ball were more effective than gunfire in the battle against racial injustice and the struggle for black rights.
The West Indies had always had brilliant cricketers; it hadn’t always had brilliant cricket teams. But in 1974, a man called Clive Lloyd began to lead a side which would at last throw off the shackles that had hindered the region for centuries. Nowhere else had a game been so closely connected to a people’s past and their future hopes; nowhere else did cricket liberate a people like it did in the Caribbean. For almost two decades, Clive Lloyd and then Vivian Richards led the batsmen and bowlers who changed the way cricket was played and changed the way a whole nation – which existed only on a cricket pitch - saw itself. With their pace like fire and their scorching batting, these sons of cane-cutters and fishermen brought pride to a people which had been stifled by 300 years of slavery, empire and colonialism. Their cricket roused the Caribbean and antagonised the game’s traditionalists.
10:00am - Join us at The Coopers Associates County Ground in the Colin Atkinson Pavilion (Long Room) to meet with fellow members over complimentary teas, coffees and biscuits.
10:15am - Walk and talk around the grounds and pay a visit to the Somerset Cricket Museum along the way.
10:45am - Re-convine and settle into your seats ready for the film to begin.
11:00am - Special screening of 'Fire in Babylon' lasting 80 minutes.
We look forward to seeing you there!
First time attending? Please register for free 👉 https://form.jotform.com/230674829667370
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Somerset County Cricket Club, The Cooper Associates County Ground, St. James Street,Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
