BBC SPORTS REPORT: A CELEBRATION OF THE WORLD'S LONGEST-RUNNING SPORTS RADIO PROGRAMME
By Pat Murphy
Synopsis
For nearly 75 years, one BBC programme has been a constant factor in chronicling the way sport is covered, in all its many facets. First broadcast in 1948, Sports Report is the longest-running radio sporting programme in the world and one of the BBC's hardy perennials. Pat Murphy has been a reporter on the programme since 1981 and here he sifts comprehensively through the experiences of his contemporaries and those who made their mark on Sports Report in earlier decades. Drawing on unique access from the BBC Archives Unit, he highlights memorable moments from Sports Report, details the challenges faced in getting live interviews on air from draughty, noisy dressing-room areas and celebrates the feat of just a small production team in the studio who, somehow, get the show up and running every Saturday, with the clock ticking implacably on.
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| Narrator | Pat Murphy |
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| Length | 12hrs 59mins |
| Catalogue No. | 19345 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Sport; 2022 |