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#092 The First Sports Broadcasts: from 'Yachts Slowly Drifting' to MCR21
Episode 92
The First Sports Broadcasts: from 'Yachts Slowly Drifting' to MCR21
Our moment-by-moment origin story of British broadcasting reaches 6th June 1923 - and what's sometimes thought to be the BBC's first sports broadcast: author Edgar Wallace giving his 'reflections on the Derby'...
...The trouble is, it wasn't the BBC's first sports broadcast.
But then... what is a sports broadcast? A live commentary? Or will a later summary do? Or how about a police radio transmission, where the Epsom Derby winner happens to be mentioned for anyone listening to hear?
This episode we bring you the…
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