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Back to Front: 1: Torvill and Dean

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The return of the series which reflects on great sporting events that were propelled from the back pages of the newspapers to the front.

On Valentine's Day 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won Olympic gold when they danced across the ice to Ravel's Bolero. Their perfect scores overshadowed all other news, including the leak at Sellafield, cruise missiles and the prologue to the year-long miners' strike.
Simon Barnes, chief sports correspondent of The Times, remembers those four magical minutes with Jayne Torvill, coach Betty Calloway and Lord Steel.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Simon Barnes
Interviewee/Subject:
Jayne Torvill
Subject:
Christopher Dean
Interviewee:
Betty Calloway
Producer:
Laurence Grissell
Source: Radio Times

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