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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

At Home: S2E06 - John Barnes

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Colin visits the Wirral home of Watford, Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes. They talk about racism, rapping, from the highs of meeting Nelson Mandela, to the horror of Hillsborough. And John explains how he - an England player - was a secret West Germany fan...

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0:40.0

Welcome to another episode of At Home with Colin Murray, starring former Watford, Liverpool and England footballer John Barnes.

0:48.0

Now while I have a chosen John for an At Home, well I'm not quite sure he gets the credit for just how amazing a player he was and I've always

0:56.2

wanted to know more about his upbringing and his father who was some character in his own right.

1:00.5

Now I know John but sometimes that makes the interview more difficult to crack,

1:05.2

but I'm looking forward to proper chat that just won't be about the obvious race issues and that

1:11.2

rap and that goal at the American

1:13.0

offer England all well discussed and important subjects

1:15.8

when it comes to this man but I want to go deeper than the

1:18.4

snow that's currently putting this episode in some jeopardy a mammoth task just to get from my place in London

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