football

A Night at the Opera – Inter Milan v AC Milan

June 11th, 2010 by Steve Bowbrick

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Two football posts in 24 hours? What's going on?

Radio producers are a big source of recommendations for Speechification. I'm posting a couple of programmes from one such recommendation, received this week, for which we are very grateful. First, here's a quite thrilling World Service essay by David Goldblatt about the eternal strife between Milan's football leviathans: AC Milan and Inter Milan. Serie A is evidently an exhilarating and frightening place (MP3). There's a lot of additional information on the programme's World Service web page and here are the nine other football-themed programmes we've published at Speechification since 2007.

Picture of an AC Milan strip by Tomaž Štolfa. Used under licence.

Presenter: David Goldblatt
Producer: Mark Burman
Production Company: BBC World Service
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Football’s Freedom Fighters

June 10th, 2010 by James Bridle

The excellent and excellently told story of the Makana Football Association, the league founded by political prisoners on Robben Island during Apartheid South Africa. The league's first president started with its constitution, and went on to draft that of the modern nation. [MP3]

Presenter: Fergal Keane
Producer: Jo Meek
Production Company: All Out
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The Loneliness Of The Goalkeeper

January 9th, 2009 by Russell Davies

A perfect little programme from Hardeep Singh Kohli featuring Camus, Nabokov and Bob Wilson. And drawing a compelling parallel between drummers and goalkeepers. Also reminds us of the best football song ever: "Nayim, From The Halfway Line". MP3 here.

Presenter: Hardeep Singh Kohli
Producer: Adam Fowler
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Papal Ball

June 11th, 2008 by Russell Davies

It's all gone quiet over here hasn't it? Maybe all the speechification contributers are glued to Euro2008. Probably. Well this'll be right up their street. Danny Robins investigates the Clericus Cup, a football tournament for Catholic priests, particularly interesting in the wake of recent Italian football tragedies and scandals. And their trouncing by the Dutch this week. MP3 here.

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Analysis: African football

January 19th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

Is African football any good? How much does a Ghanaian Premiership player earn? Will a team from the continent ever win the World Cup? The World Service is going large on the Africa Cup of Nations that kicks off in Ghana this weekend. Here's 8:14 of the kind of stuff only the World Service can do: wide-ranging, authoritative commentary on stuff that happens in foreign places. (MP3).

Presenter: Richard Knight
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