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Tony Roper talks to boxing champion Jim Watt about growing up in Glasgow in the 1950s.

Tony Roper talks to former world lightweight boxing champion Jim Watt about growing up in one of Glasgow's housing schemes during the 1950s.

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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.

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