Martin Offiah

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Colin Murray has an in-depth conversation with rugby player Martin Offiah about his life, how he owes his success to his brother, racism and being the league’s top scorer. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Wednesday 10.30pm to 1am - or available whenever you want via the free BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0	Newscast is the unscripted chat behind the headlines.
0:05.6	It's informed that in Formal, we pick the day's top stories and we find experts who can
0:11.2	really dig into them.
0:12.4	We use our colleagues in the newsroom and our contacts.
0:15.2	Some people pick up the phone rather faster than others.
0:18.6	We sometimes literally run around the BBC building to grab the very best guests.
0:23.4	Join us for daily news chats.
0:25.6	To get you ready for today's conversations, newscast,
0:29.3	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.6	Just so you know, this podcast contains some strong language.
0:46.1	Hello, I'm welcome to Midnight Meets.
0:48.4	I'm Colin Murray and since the summer of 2020,
0:51.5	I've been sitting down with guests as part of my late night BBC 5 live show,
0:56.2	which airs from half 10 to one week days.
0:58.8	And having a good, honest, long form chat with my guests.
1:03.2	Now there's no sick criteria for who joins me.
1:05.5	It can be music, sport, politics, other, anything.
1:08.7	But each and every one of them, of course, I look for a story that needs to be told
1:13.6	in a much longer format than just a five minute interview or a short sound bite.
1:22.3	This Midnight Meets is just quite simply with a sporting legend.
1:26.4	The rugby league legend, the Hall of Famer,
1:28.8	representing witness in England and Great Britain.
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