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Sporting Witness: Eric Liddell

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20/08/2016 GMT

Eric Liddell

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, Eric Liddell

The story of the Scottish runner immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire.

The Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell, is famous for refusing to run on a Sunday in the Paris Olympics of 1924. But, as depicted in the film Chariots of Fire, he went on to win Gold in a different event - the 400 metres. After the Olympics, Eric Liddell became a Christian missionary in China, where he died in an internment camp during World War Two.

Simon Watts tells the extraordinary story of Eric Liddell's life using archive material and an interview with Steve Metcalf, a survivor from the camp. The programme was first broadcast in 2011.

(Photo: Eric Liddell. Credit: Getty Images)

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