As Euro 2020 is finally set to begin, the new Genome blog by guest blogger Paul Hayes looks back to the first international football tournament covered by the BBC - at the 1948 London Olympics... https://t.co/46n7oRhceb pic.twitter.com/bORksnn6JB
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A new professional article published today, for the BBC, and for a change not the part of the BBC for which I usually work! You can read it here.
A few weeks ago, the British Broadcasting Century happened to mention a certain Barrie Edgar, when talking about the BBC career of his father Percy. This rang a bell with me, as I wondered where I'd heard the name before. I was pretty sure it was as part of my Jimmy Jewell research back in 2019, and sure enough there it was - in the 1948 Olympic files. He was the co-commentator alongside Jewell on the football matches shown on TV during the games.
This then got me thinking that there were certain parallels between the 1948 Olympic football tournament and this summer's European Championships, which as I write this begin tomorrow. The 1948 event was also the first time an international football tournament was ever shown on television, and all-in-all I thought there might be an interesting article in it.
So I put something together and submitted it to BBC Archives for the blog associated with their Genome project, and very kindly they agreed to publish it.
I've also had some good news this week about some other non-fiction irons in the fire, so all-in-all not a bad week on the writing front!
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