Andrew Cotter Audiobooks

A familiar voice from the golf and rugby coverage, off duty in Olive, Mabel and Me

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Who is Andrew Cotter?

Andrew Cotter, born in 1973, is a Scottish sports broadcaster whose voice will be familiar to anyone who follows British sport. He works primarily for the BBC, covering golf and rugby union in the main, with tennis, athletics and the Boat Race also on the rota.

Commentators occupy an odd corner of public life: heard for hundreds of hours, rarely looked at for more than a moment. Cotter belongs to that tradition – a broadcaster whose delivery is part of the furniture of the British sporting year – and the biographical record beyond the microphone is modest, which suits this page fine: we would rather be brief than embroider.

Andrew Cotter in audiobooks

Our catalogue carries Olive, Mabel and Me, and the format could hardly be friendlier to the author: broadcasters write for the ear by professional habit, and a man who narrates sport for a living understands pace, warmth and the well-placed pause better than most memoirists.

As for who Olive and Mabel are, the title keeps its own counsel and so shall we – listeners can make their acquaintance in the opening minutes. UK listeners who know Cotter’s commentary will know exactly the register to expect.