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Sportshour: Harry Potter and the President’s Swing

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Harry Potter and the President’s Swing

18/02/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Harry Potter and the President’s Swing

We discuss if golf and politics really mix and learn more about the sport of Quidditch.

After Donald Trump commented that getting to know the Japanese PM on the golf course is the best way to begin their diplomatic discussions, we look back on when political policy has been born on the golf course. 

We hear from a golf writer who has played two rounds with Trump, he claims that POTUS is the best golfer ever to be sworn in. 

Comedians Tim Vine (Sutton United) and Ian Stone (Arsenal) face off for laughs ahead of a non-league vs Premier League FA Cup sixth round tie. 

We visit the Yorkshire Roses quidditch team and hear from the man who adapted a fictional game from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books into an international sport. 

To mark the death of Dick Bruna, the creator of cartoon rabbit Miffy whose books have sold more than 800 million copies worldwide, we explore his impact on sport. Miffy was chosen as the mascot for the Grand Depart of the 2015 tour de France in Bruna’s home town of Utrecht. Curator Edwin Jacobs tells us why the world’s greatest cycling race was lucky to be associated with the famous bunny. 

And as former Liverpool and France international striker Djibril Cisse brings an end to his football career to concentrate on becoming a DJ, Sportshour speaks to a man whose made that transition. Former Everton and Chelsea winger, (DJ) Pat Nevin, tells us what it takes to successfully swap the dressing room for the DJ booth. 

(Image: Donald Trump at The Trump International Golf Links Course. Credit: Getty Images)

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