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Great Lives

Anton Du Beke on Arnold Palmer

Great Lives

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke chooses the golf legend Arnold Palmer as his great life. Along with the sports broadcaster John Inverdale, he sets out the reasons why Palmer left a legacy far beyond the sporting world and far beyond the golf course.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

Transcript

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0:41.0

He was the first international sports celebrity, a man triumphant in his field, a commercial

0:48.0

success, a confidant of political leaders, and so admired that he was asked several times to run for US President.

0:56.3

He died last year, the charismatic face of professional golf.

1:01.6

Today on Great Lives, we're talking about Arnold Palmer with my guest, the ballroom dancer

1:06.4

Anton Dubec, whose time on Strictly Come Dancing, has seen him partnered with that comparative stranger to the links the T and the rough, my old friend

1:16.0

Anne Widdicum. Listener do access the publicity shots bizarre, doesn't do justice to the scene. Anton, how did you hold on? She was like a wild thing.

1:27.0

She was... There's nothing I like more than enthusiasm. You don't have to be good which was a bit luck in this case but you

1:34.5

must have enthusiasm and she your friend Anne is quite a girl I absolutely love her she

1:40.9

was wonderful to spend the time with and I under for to do the show with and it was a really good sport.

1:45.8

Great sport absolutely brilliant.

1:48.4

Anton you're a golfer with a handicap of five. Is golf an antidote to dancing for you or just a social

1:55.3

sporting thing? I just love the game I love the fact that you play it against

2:00.6

yourself you play it against the course I love the fact that you're outdoors.

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