Introduced by Harry Carpenter.
The champion had held the title for seven years. He was known to be one of the toughest fighters ever; the challenger-just a smooth-talking bookworm. The fight was a foregone conclusion-or was it?
Philadelphia, September 23, 1926
Jack Dempsey v. Gene Tunney
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It's a wise man who has taken his seat and settled down before the big fight starts. First rounds have been known to hold surprises. When the current world heavyweight champion shoots backwards out of the ring in the first round after dropping the challenger seven times, it becomes historic.
New York, September 14, 1923
Jack Dempsey v. Luis Firpo
Starring Dick Emery
with Deryck Guyler, Peter Gilmore, Julia Shelley, Gillian Humphreys, Jeffrey Gardiner
and featuring Take Five
by Thomas Mann.
dramatised in seven parts by Jack Pulman.
Christian has returned to the family business. Tony's marriage has ended in bankruptcy and divorce.
Recorded in the BBC's Glasgow studio
Repeated on Thursday at 10.10
with Alan Whicker
What's a pretty girl like you... doing in a place like this?
The hair, massive and lacquered stiff -a solid, unmoving helmet, Make-up, heavy-a deep dusty coating, fanned by great remote-controlled eyelashes Waistline, unnaturally small and tight. Swimsuit, sculptured to emphasise endless thighs. The exposure, tremendous-it's got to be tremendous, for these are
The Beauty Queens
Tonight, to examine nature in the raw, we join these perambulating bathing-beauties, crowned and uncrowned, on and off the catwalk, to share their triumphs and defeats as they sway towards their ultimate trial-the day of Miss World!
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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-1 after Grandstand and on BBC-2 at 7.30
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian, Joan Bakewell and tonight's guests.