by Vernon Scannell
The verse narration spoken by VERNON SCANNELL
Vernon Scannell was once a first-class amateur boxer. In this programme he remembers the nervous ordeal that he faced as a youth of sixteen waiting to box in the final bout of the Junior Amateur Championships held in a famous London stadium of the thirties. He remembers, too, another fight: the conflict between two aspects of his temperament-the aspiring poet and the aspiring pugilist. Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Third broadcast