Sports Report is as much a 75-year history of sport as a BBC radio institution and Pat Murphy pays handsome tribute to a programme that is still followed affectionately by millions.
For nearly 75 years,one BBC programme has been a constant factor in chronicling the way sport is covered,in all its many facets. It has been a window on the sporting world all over the globe - packed tightly into every Saturday evening for the bulk of the year. 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.
He hears from commentators,reporters,producers,presenters and the production teams who regularly achieved the broadcasting miracle of getting a live programme on air,without a script,adapting as the hour of news,reaction and comment unfolded.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781472994219Number of pages: 304Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'The living history of a huge part of all our lives - and there's no one in the world better to tell it than Pat Murphy.'- Lee Child,bestselling author
'Opens the doors to one of the great radio institutions and makes you realise how much effort and love goes into making it so special.'- Dan Walker
'Pat's reporting has always been engaging,expressive and arresting. Delighted his Sports Report book is just the same.'- Mark Pougatch
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