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Wrestling for Britain

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The poet George Szirtes arrived in England as a boy fleeing the aftermath of the Hungarian uprising of 1956. He and his family soon met another refugee, the wrestler
Tibor Szakacs , and their lives became briefly intertwined. Here he tells his and Tibor's story with the help of archive interviews with some of the wrestling legends of the past. Producer Tim Dee

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George Szirtes
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Tibor Szakacs
Producer:
Tim Dee
Source: Radio Times

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