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The Game That Got Away: Tuesday's Documentary

BBC One
on BBC One London

A film about a sport that shows up a divided country

A portrait of Rugby League, how it fell foul of the Rugby Union and broke away... How northern working men got their hands on a Public School game and turned it inside out... How one sport did not bring people closer together

Rugby Union and Rugby League have a common parent. But no brotherly love is lost between them. Rugby Union is amateur, middle class, and gentlemanly; Rugby League is professional, working class, not gentle, but very manly.

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Narrator/Producer:
Roger Mills
Source: Radio Times

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