1/2. Former boxer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah profiles Muhammad Ali , from his emergence as a heavyweight boxing champion, aged 22, to his lighting of the Olympic torch at Atlanta in 1996. This first edition looks at the outspoken now-65-year-old star's early careen his rejection of his "slave" name Cassius Clay , his alliance with the Nation of Islam and other peaks and controversies that define one of the more colourful lives of the last half century. Contributors include boxers George Foreman. Henry Cooper , sports writers Colin Hart and Alan Hubbard , and Ernie Terrell and daughters Maryum and Hana Ali. Producer Julia Allen
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