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Schemes and Dreams

Episode 3: Jim Watt

Duration: 25 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

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Tony Roper talks to lightweight boxing champion Jim Watt about life in Glasgow in the 1950s. Tony discovers how Jim's early years growing up in a housing scheme prepared him for his boxing career and how, even now, he can still relate to that wee lad who grew up in Possil Park. Show less

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