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29/03/2003

BBC Two - This Sporting Life

A Yorkshire coal miner decides to better himself by becoming a professional rugby player.

Adaptation of David Storey's novel about an ex-miner who rises up through a rugby team in 1960s northern England and hides a secret love for his landlady. Starring Richard Harris.

Powerful drama detailing the efforts of a Yorkshire coal miner to better himself by becoming a professional rugby player. He establishes a reputation as one of the sport's most aggressive players and in his private life enters into a tempestuous relationship with his widowed landlady.

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