3.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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David Currie is joined by the ghosts of Sportscene past as he welcomes legendary presenters Archie McPherson, Dougie Donnelly, and Jock Brown. Together, they relive the highs and lows of hosting Scotland's pre-eminent sports TV programme.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:11.5 | Hello and welcome to a Scottish football podcast, sports scene at 50 special. |
0:18.7 | With me, David Curry, some very special nay, legendary |
0:22.8 | iconic guests in no particular order |
0:26.7 | Mr. Dughey Donnelly, |
0:29.1 | Jock Brown and Archie |
0:30.9 | McPherson. You're doing a great job. |
0:32.3 | I have to confess my |
0:34.3 | imposter syndrome has never been |
0:36.7 | more to the fore and today. I don't know what you guys, |
0:39.2 | I'm a wee bit nervous. It's like I've been drawn in front, I've been pulled in front of |
0:44.5 | three headmasters at once. So anyway, just for anyone who doesn't know, I'll go around the |
0:49.5 | houses very quickly and if you could just tell me your dates of service with sportsine we'll start with |
0:55.4 | you archie well i was 13 years with sports reel before sports team came as the main program |
1:04.5 | i was there from 75 to about 1990 or 91 thereabouts so sports scene didn't create its own identity, Scottish footballed it. |
1:16.2 | It gave it other things to speak about that I hadn't spoken about in the first 13 years with the BBC. |
1:25.0 | Jock, next on the hockey. |
1:26.7 | Well, I arrived, first of all, |
1:28.8 | a sports rule too on radio in 1977. |
1:32.7 | I was three years there, |
1:33.8 | then had a 10-year sabbatical with another broadcaster. |
1:37.8 | No mention that. |
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