Press, Publications and Media
Titmus published his first autobiography Talk of the Double in 1964. It was typical of the anodyne cricket autobiographies of the period and revealed that he was born in Somers Town and that his family moved to Kentish Town in 1939. In his second autobiography, My Life in Cricket published in 2005, he was rather more forthright in his views of former playing colleagues, and depicted five decades of his playing career with passion.
He also served as an England test selector from 1994 to 1996.
In 1985 the band Half Man Half Biscuit paid homage to Titmus with their song "Fuckin' 'Ell It's Fred Titmus".
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