Ramble Meets... Mark Chapman
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is one of the country's best-loved presenters across both TV, where he fronts Match of the Day 2, and radio, where he is the voice of BBC 5 Live's sports coverage. The man known to millions across the UK and beyond as 'Chappers' talks to Luke about how his career started, his best and worst moments as a broadcaster and why he's happy to be known as 'the grouting in the tiles'. Delivered with Mark's trademark self-deprecation and humour, this month's Ramble Meets... is a fascinating insight into what it takes to be a top level live broadcaster on both radio and television. Mark's book For The Love of the Game is out now in paperback. Pick up a copy here: https://t.co/9seaoUIA6d
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Rambble Meets with me Luke Moore. Today I am joined |
| 0:13.8 | by a stalwart broadcaster, a legend and not just in his own lunchtime. Mr Mark Chapman. |
| 0:21.2 | Storwart makes me so quite old. Should I use your full name? Five-life sports |
| 0:25.2 | match up. Not just in no just my chap adult. That's great. It is a pleasure to have you here Mark. |
| 0:31.7 | I do so that to everyone but it's a genuine pleasure to start around. Do you practice your |
| 0:35.7 | sincerity? We have to don't you in there. The idea is to go away. Everyone think |
| 0:42.8 | and you're a nice person. Otherwise you'll get no work at all. Mark it's great to have you here. |
| 0:49.2 | Everyone will know you very well from every single TV and radio show in history. So there's |
| 0:56.0 | no introduction needed there but what it tells a bit about how you came to be the broadcaster you |
| 1:02.0 | are today where you started all the rest of it. Before you do though I think I might be mistaken |
| 1:06.3 | this but I think I used to have a job working in a car park in the booth. What I used to have to |
| 1:12.0 | do for a supermarket was check people's receipts as they came out to make sure that they paid to |
| 1:17.2 | park there. So they spent enough in the supermarket to make sure that they were allowed |
| 1:24.1 | the two hours free parking. This was about 1999ish maybe 2000. I'm not going to say I saw you work |
| 1:32.0 | at the supermarket. That's not true. But obviously before the internet so we had the other thing |
| 1:36.4 | I have is just a little radio. I think I'm right in saying that you used to do the sport on Chris |
| 1:41.6 | Moil show. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I used to do the sport for Sarah Cox on her breakfast show. |
| 1:50.2 | Around that sort of time. I joined radio on in the summer of 1999 so I did the sport for Zoe |
| 1:57.0 | Ball on her breakfast show. Then Sarah Cox and then I moved to afternoons with Sarah and then Scott. |
| 2:04.0 | I used to when there was a big football tournament do stuff for the Moils show but I was never |
| 2:11.5 | part of the Moils show. The only thing I was part of was a budget and double act with Dave |
| 2:21.5 | when we used to do shows for radio on as chapters and Dave. That must be what I remember. |
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