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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

At Home: S3E03 - Barry Hearn

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn talks to Colin Murray about success, peacocks, mistakes, importance of family and the future of sport.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's 2003 in Birmingham.

0:04.4

Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here.

0:07.1

They were capable of murder.

0:08.4

Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies.

0:15.6

The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore.

0:17.8

We're going to be even more violent than you.

0:19.6

Before turning on each other.

0:22.0

I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys.

0:27.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:30.4

One, two, get down.

0:35.0

Series 3, episode 3 of at home,

0:37.0

and it sees me stay exactly where I am,

0:40.0

on my own sofa waiting for that knock at the door.

0:43.0

You could argue that my next guest is the best

0:50.0

you could argue that my next guest is the best known name in UK sport that doesn't actually play sport

0:57.2

From a success in the 80s with snooker and boxing there's consequent revival from the brink that

1:03.0

no he says is hugely successful matchroom sports company

1:06.7

behind so many big moments in her sporting calendar every year.

1:10.4

Barry Hearns like the Dur Selboney of sports promotion.

1:15.0

His story, I think though, has been told many times,

1:18.0

so I'm going to see if I can push him away from not retelling the obvious albeit funny stories.

1:25.0

This is at home. I'm genuinely intrigued to find out more about the man behind a man that I've met 100 times before and I don't really feel like I know him that well.

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