Overview
The story of Sports Report is a 75-year-old history of sport. The BBC’s Sports Report is the world’s longest-running sports radio programme. It started on January 3rd, 1948, and has always been broadcast from 5.00 to 6.00 p.m. on Saturday evenings. The programme marks its 75th anniversary in 2023, and this BBC-endorsed book celebrates the show’s rich history as well as British sport’s greatest moments. Written by Pat Murphy, the show’s longest-serving regular contributor, the book will feature a wealth of anecdote and insight from its presenters (Des Lynam, Mark Pougatch, Eleanor Oldroyd, John Inverdale, Mark Chapman) and contributing journalists (Henry Winter, Garry Richardson, Daniel Taylor, Paul Hayward, Richard Williams), as well as leading sports personalities and celebrities who have appeared on the programme – or just listened on the radio at home (Gary Lineker, Geoff Boycott, Tim Rice, David Blunkett). BBC Sports Report will take the readers behind the scenes of the world’s longest-running sports radio programme and offer fresh light on some of the most significant moments in British sporting history.
Full Product Details
Author: Pat Murphy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781472994226
ISBN 10: 1472994221
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 29 September 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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 Jack Reacher author and Aston Villa fan * 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 * That opening tune always quickens the pulse. Out of the Blue, into the drama of the sporting day. Insight, interviews, inspirational * Henry Winter * It was the opening theme tune that sucked you in - it's synonymous with British sport and a staple diet of listening and watching sport on a Saturday afternoon. * Joe Root, England Cricketer and Sheffield United fan *
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 Jack Reacher author and Aston Villa fan * 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 * That opening tune always quickens the pulse. Out of the Blue, into the drama of the sporting day. Insight, interviews, inspirational * Henry Winter *
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 Jack Reacher author and Aston Villa fan *
Author Information
Patrick Murphy is a celebrated BBC journalist and the longest-serving regular contributor to Sports Report. He started in November, 1981, specialising in cricket and football, and is famed for his many jousts with difficult members of the football industry. Murphy has been involved in 44 sports books, including acclaimed biographies of Ian Botham and Brian Clough while co-writing books with, among others, Bob Willis, Graham Gooch, Viv Richards, Wasim Akram, Alan Donald, Imran Khan, Alec Stewart, Andrew Flintoff and Jack Russell. He has a 37k followers on Twitter.
