BBC Sport in Black and White

This book provides the first detailed account of the formative decades of BBC televised sport when it launched its flagship programmes Sportsview , Grandstand and Match of the Day . Based on extensive archival research in the BBC’s written archives and interviews with leading producers, editors and commentators of the period, it provides a ‘behind-the-scenes’ narrative history of this major institution of British cultural life. In 2016 the BBC celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its televisio