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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

Steve Cram

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Olympic medallist Steve Cram talks to Colin about his life from his world mile record in Oslo, to winning silver at the 1984 Olympics, his rivalry with the two other giants of middle distance running Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett and his bizarre experiences being the ‘face’ of a breakfast cereal. Plus, Steve Cram’s archive advice for anyone with a verruca wanting to carry on doing sport. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am – or available whenever you want via the BBC Sounds app.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.

0:03.7

My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.

0:08.4

I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with a leading journalist, experienced

0:12.2

pundits and the biggest sport stars.

0:14.3

Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players'

0:18.5

mouths.

0:19.5

But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is our unique access to the sport world.

0:25.0

What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to

0:28.8

dedicated sports fans across the UK.

0:31.2

So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more.

0:44.0

Hello and welcome to another installment of Midnight Mates in this podcast, another

0:48.4

sporting theme.

0:49.4

It's time to catch up with one of the world's most dominant middle-distance runners of all

0:53.9

time and along with Steve O'Vet and Sebastian Co.

0:57.6

He rode the world for almost a decade.

1:00.0

The gyro arrow, one of the worst nicknames in all of sport, Steve Kram.

1:04.3

The first man to ever run the 1500m and under 3.5 minutes, a world champion and an Olympic

1:10.3

silver medalist.

1:11.3

He's now a league commentator on the track and field for the BBC and it's a sport that

1:15.6

is absolutely rude just about every minute of his life so far.

1:20.4

It's fair to say that Steve Kram is not the smileiest person you'll ever meet but I'm

1:25.6

lucky enough to know him away from the mic.

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