The BBC have confirmed a stellar line-up of snooker legends past and present for their coverage at the Crucible. Kyren Wilson ...

The snooker legend was once dubbed 'the most boring player in the world' but a lot has changed since he retired from playing ...

A BBC commentator from 1978 until 2010 ... in the country and he was among the key narrators of snooker’s transition during the 1980s and 1990s from folk sport to primetime television attraction.

On the eve of this year’s World Championship at the Crucible, Telegraph Sport spoke to some of the era’s key players ...

He went on to complete a career Triple Crown by winning the Masters in 1980 and then ... go on to be a great commentator on the BBC and was awarded an OBE for services to snooker in 2007.