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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

At Home: S3E09 - Steve Davis

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Colin Murray invites Steve Davis to his place, to talk about his domination of snooker in the 1980s, his record collection and other obsessions, to his new career as an electronic musician and DJ.

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.

0:27.6

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:30.1

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Music, Radio Podcasts. Welcome to episode 9 of the third series of At Home and today I'm staying put.

0:46.4

He heading to my humble abode, a man who dominated his sport in the 80s and did so with a level of professionalism and straightforwardness

0:55.3

that betrayed many of Snooker's other mega stars.

1:00.9

Steve Davis was quite simply phenomenal. He won it all time and time again. He

1:06.7

played snuger with Eric Morcombe. He won Rayor of the Year. He became snuger's

1:11.4

first millionaire. And yet so much of his story centers around the most watched game of snooker ever

1:17.8

In 1985 when he lost the world final to Dennis Taylor. There's so much more the Davis than that. Since then he's gone on

1:24.6

to DJ and make experimental albums with his mates under the name The

1:28.4

Utopia Strong. In fact, you're listening to them now.

1:39.0

So let's put the needle on another episode of Antholm.

1:45.8

Noggett, thank you for coming. P pleasure, come on in street, right?

1:47.8

I think this grand piano.

1:48.8

Listen, you're the highest seated player, so if you sit sit on the left I'll sit on the right.

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