Bbc Tv Coverage For Speedway

[TonyMac]

THE BBC have rarely featured speedway in their programming schedules, but the Yorkshire-based LOOK NORTH show is set to feature former England No.1 and current Belle Vue co-team manager Eric Boocock tomorrow evening (Thursday, Sept 6).

 

The show will be aired between 6.30pm-7.30pm and Booey has been invited along as a guest of the show, primarily to talk about our recently published book, Tragedy - The Kenny Carter Story.

 

As most of you know, we also published Booey's autobiography last year, titled Around In Circles.

 

Ok, so I'm blatantly plugging the Carter book (again!)...but surely it's good news for speedway in general that a prime evening BBC show (albeit a regional one) has recognised the sport and is prepared to give it air time. Knowing Eric, he is bound to be good value, too.

 

For those of you who can't access Look North on your actual telly, here's the link to their Home Page, where you can view the half-hour show via the internet (just click on the 'watch now' link on the right-hand side of the page)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthyorkslincs/index.shtml

Edited September 5, 2007 by tmc

[Parsloes 1928 nearly]

...the Yorkshire-based LOOK NORTH show is set to feature former England No.1 and current Belle Vue co-team manager Eric Boocock tomorrow evening (Thursday, Sept 6).

The show will be aired between 6.30pm-7.30pm and Booey has been invited along as a guest of the show, primarily to talk about our recently published book, Tragedy - The Kenny Carter Story.

 

Gosh, Tony.. I do sincerely hope this goes okay but you know my reservations about the Kenny Caret business; and I do hope that the piece doesn't dwell on the tragic circumstances to the (possible) detriment of the sport ..

TBH, though, I really can't imagine that the journalists won't pick up on this..??

[TonyMac]

I do hope that the piece doesn't dwell on the tragic circumstances to the (possible) detriment of the sport

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Even if the presenters or Booey do reflect on the tragic events at the end of Pam and Kenny's lives, I can't see how this can possibly reflect adversely on the sport itself.

 

On the contrary. The sport needs EVERY mention, on terrestrial TV, that it can possibly get. It may even serve as a reminder to the millions watching this programme that our sport actually still exists!

 

Whether we like it or not, it is the very nature of the subject (in this case Kenny Carter and the tragic events of May 1986) that has attracted the BBC's interest.

Edited September 5, 2007 by tmc