This Sporting Life
1960s short films reflecting our national preoccupation with a range of competitive sports, ranging from golf and cycling to skiing and stock car racing.
Series in which high-quality 1960s colour footage from the vaults of the Rank Organisation is brought together to offer compelling insights into British life during that seminal decade.
This episode salutes the Rank filmmakers' attempts to reflect our near-obsessive national preoccupation with a range of competitive sports, ranging from golf and cycling to skiing and stock car racing. Featuring vintage prose praising the idiosyncratic appeal of cricket by the incomparable commentator Richie Benaud, as well as rare colour footage of the England football team in training shortly before their greatest-ever triumph in the 1966 World Cup.
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Preparations for the 1966 World Cup
Duration: 01:12
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Analysing the golf swing
Duration: 01:40
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Stock cars
Duration: 02:13
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Kathryn Williams |
Executive Producer | David Okuefuna |
Broadcasts
- Tue 1 Oct 2013 20:30
- Wed 2 Oct 2013 01:00
- Thu 18 Sep 2014 01:00
- Tue 2 Feb 2016 02:20
- Thu 16 Mar 2017 02:15