75 years of Sports Report
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
75 years ago, we heard Sports Report for the first time. On this podcast, Mark Chapman and Pat Murphy speak to fans, broadcasters and those who’ve been on the other side of the microphone. Jockey AP McCoy, author Lee Child and manager Tony Pulis are among those to explain why Sports Report is so special. **This is pre-recorded, so please do not message in**
TOPICS: 7:00 – Author Lee Child, 12:40 - What is it like actually working as a reporter on the show? 18:50 – Manager Tony Pulis, 26:15 – Stories from our presenters, 33:20 – Jockey AP McCoy, 42:30 - The most difficult day in the history of the programme, the day of Hillsborough, 50:20 – The wrong theme tune!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman, and for the next hour, we're going to be celebrating a broadcasting |
| 0:10.4 | institution. The one that always starts a bit like this. |
| 0:14.3 | Good evening and welcome to the 984th edition of The Five o'clock Show. |
| 0:18.9 | Tonight's sports report celebrates its 25th birthday, launched on January 3rd, 1948, |
| 0:24.1 | since become the longest running sports program of them all. Happy birthday to us. |
| 0:28.3 | Sports report has got 50 candles on its cake today. |
| 0:31.6 | You're listening to Sport on to this afternoon. |
| 0:33.7 | This is BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:35.6 | That red second hand goes forward. |
| 0:37.2 | It's coming up to five o'clock. |
| 0:39.5 | It's 11 o'clock in the morning in Chicago, five o'clock in the afternoon in the UK. |
| 0:43.4 | Now the time is five o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. |
| 0:46.4 | Time for sports report. |
| 0:47.8 | Time for sports report. |
| 0:49.4 | And this is sports report. |
| 0:51.1 | It's the familiar sound of Out of the Blue and sports report. |
| 1:10.5 | On January 3rd, 1948, we heard this piece of music and sports report for the first time. |
| 1:17.3 | It has been here ever since the show is older than the National Health Service. |
| 1:22.6 | Elizabeth II was still four years away from becoming queen when the program started. |
| 1:27.8 | And we've had more prime ministers than sports report presenters in that time. |
| 1:33.6 | We'll hear from fans, broadcasters and those who've been on the other side of the microphone during this show. |
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