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5 Live celebrates 60 years of Sports Report
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Sports Report, the iconic radio programme with its distinctive theme tune Out Of The Blue, celebrates 60 years on BBC Radio in January 2008.
On 3 January Mark Saggers introduces a nostalgic 5 Live Sport looking back over 60 years of radio sports coverage on a Saturday afternoon.
Des Lynam returns to the Sports Report studio with Mark Pougatch and Eleanor Oldroyd.
Special guests include Ian Payne, John Inverdale, Stuart Hall and Tony Adamson.
There will also be a variety of cameo performances from luminaries who have graced the programme throughout the last 60 years including Jimmy Armfield, who recalls being interviewed as a player on the programme.
And the Grimethorpe Colliery Band will give a live rendition of the programme's theme tune Out Of The Blue.
Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio.
Throughout the years the show has been anchored by a host of household names, including Eamonn Andrews, Des Lynam, John Inverdale and Peter Jones, whose son Stuart will be present to reflect on his father's period at the helm.
Such presenters have helped establish the programme as a unique and much-loved part of listeners' Saturday afternoons.
The football results have been read out by the unmistakable voice of James Alexander Gordon for over 30 years.
60 Years Of Sports Report
1948-2008,
Thursday 3 January 2008, 7.00pm
Sports Report presenters have included:
1948 Raymond Glendenning
1955 Eamonn Andrews
1964 Robin Marler
1964 Peter Jones
1970 Desmond Lynam
1980 Mike Ingham
1985 Renton Laidlaw
1987 John Inverdale
1994 Ian Payne
1997 Mark Pougatch.
Notes to Editors
You can listen to 5 Live via digital radio, digital television, online at bbc.co.uk/5live and on 909 & 693 MW.
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