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BANFF TELEVISION FESTIVAL

1982-0291

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1982 ?

Tyne Tees Television

director, Tom Clegg; producer, Laurie Greenwood

Dennis Waterman, Richard Griffiths, Andrew Keir, Nigel Hawthorne

Television program about the first-ever World Cup football tournament, held in 1910. It all began when Sir Thomas Lipton, Glasgow-born millionaire boss of a chain of grocery stores and a well-known international yachtsman, was made a Knight of the Grand Order of Italy. To show his gratitude, he decided to stage the first World Cup football tournament in Italy. The English authorities were not particularly interested in his whims, so he invited West Auckland, which was in the third bottom of the Northern Amateur League at the time, to represent England in Turin, a daunting prospect in itself for simple mining folk who had rarely been outside West Auckland. This production turns back the clock to recapture the atmosphere of Turin and the adventures of the team as it defeats the professional Swiss team and wins an historic victory. <2h>

English

Libre

V1 8307-0082

with permission of Banff Television Festival