Sir Alex Ferguson: Made in Govan
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
BBC Radio Manchester presenter Mike Sweeney and former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson go back a long way. They used to play football together and bonded over their love of music from the sixties. In this edition of Archive on 4, they sit down together to talk about Sir Alex as a young man and the influences which shaped his extraordinary career. Sir Alex reflects on his upbringing in Govan, the tenements where he lived and the people who first believed in him. He reveals how his early experiences as a working man left him with values that last to this day. He tells Mike about the magic of first playing football, and reflects on the ups and downs of his playing and coaching career and their impact on what came next. Moments from the BBC Archive help Mike tell Sir Alex's story.
Presented by Mike Sweeney. Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Camellia Sinclair. Mixed by Michael Harrison.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, this is seriously from BBC Radio 4 and I'm Vanessa Casile. |
| 0:46.6 | Each week this podcast brings you two of the best documentaries that audio world has to offer. |
| 0:52.4 | Here comes something unusual, charming and |
| 0:55.2 | seriously fascinating. Sometimes it's great to catch up with old friends |
| 1:02.0 | especially when you've known each other for ages. |
| 1:05.0 | Can you tell me how you remember meeting me? |
| 1:08.0 | I think it was a fine estate football at the cliff. |
| 1:11.0 | At the cliff. |
| 1:12.0 | The cliff used to be the training ground of the football team. |
| 1:16.0 | I love and support Manchester United. |
| 1:18.0 | It used to get quite tasty of those games. |
| 1:21.0 | You got Alex Ferguson and a load of X-pros. |
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