Introduced by Harry Carpenter.
An ex-lightweight champion of the world, Battling Nelson had fought 105 times without being knocked out. Then he met Owen Moran from Birmingham who hadn't much time for great reputations.
San Francisco, California November 16, 1910
Battling Nelson v. Owen Moran
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When a champion loses his title he tries much harder in the return fight. If he regains it and the two men meet again they both put up a spectacular show. This was their third meeting...
Yankee Stadium, New York September 8, 1950
Sandy Saddler, ex-champion v. Willie Pep, World featherweight champion
by Ernest Hemingway.
Dramatised in four parts by Giles Cooper.
Pablo has disappeared, taking with him the detonators Jordan needs to blow up the bridge.
Recorded in the BBC's Glasgow studio
(Repeated on Thursday at 10.10)
Starring Dick Emery
with Deryck Guyler
and featuring Take Five
A film of the City of New York and the men who want to be its Mayor.
It's the most nervous city on earth, with too much crime, too little water, and too much traffic. It's got a ghetto
The personalities include:
The Candidates: Abraham Beame, Democrat; William F. Buckley, Conservative; John V. Lindsay, Republican-Liberal; Robert F. Kennedy, Senator; Jesse Gray, Rebel; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat; the Cop, the Bookie, the Pilot, and the Publisher and Sammy Davis Jr.
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A top League football match brought to you each Saturday on BBC-2.
Kenneth Wolstenholme reports with outside broadcast cameras from a well-known League ground.
Today's match will be announced on BBC-tv from 4.0 onwards
Late Night Line-Up rounds off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian, Joan Bakewell.
and
Plunder
A weekly raid on the archives of BBC Television.
Tonight's edition includes: Elsa Maxwell; Moiseiwitsch playing music by Schumann; Phyllis Digby-Morton in an excerpt from "Can You Tell Me" with Barbara Goalen.
