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20/01/2007
Back to Square One, 80 Years of Football on the Radio: Barry Davies delves into the changing relationship between broadcasting and football since the first broadcast in 1927.
Back to Square One - 80 Years of Football on the Radio
Just three weeks after the Royal Charter was received in January 1927, the 麻豆官网首页入口 covered its first football match. The Radio Times published a diagram of the pitch which was split into squares so that the commentator could easily let the listener know where the ball was. This is thought by some to have been the origin of the phrase 'back to square one'.
Barry Davies delves into the evolution of commentary from that day to this, looking at the changing relationship between broadcasting and football.
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Sat 20 Jan 2007
20:00
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- Sat 20 Jan 2007 20:00麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4 FM