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Episode 10: The Games People Play

The Games People Play

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John Beattie investigates what happens when the worlds of sport and politics collide.

Documentary. John Beattie investigates the potential influence a successful Commonwealth Games may have on the way Scots vote in the upcoming referendum.

There's never been a summer like it in Scotland. Just seven weeks after Glasgow hosts the Commonwealth Games, millions of Scots will be going to the polls to decide our country's future.

In this programme, ex-rugby international turned broadcaster John Beattie investigates what happens when the worlds of sport and politics collide. John asks if gold medals at this year's Commonwealth Games will influence whether Scots vote Yes or No on September 18th.

Yes campaigner and boxing legend Alex Arthur tells John his career suffered because he wouldn't keep his Scottish identity under wraps. 

Pro-UK supporter and rugby hero David Sole insists the historic 1990 Grand Slam victory over England was just a game of rugby and had nothing to do with the Poll Tax or Mrs Thatcher.

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