Holidate | Eddie Waring - Mr Rugby League | The First Day of the Blitz | The Big School Lottery | Mercury Music Prize | This is England '86 | Tonight's TV highlights

Holidate | Eddie Waring - Mr Rugby League | The First Day of the Blitz | The Big School Lottery | Mercury Music Prize | This is England '86 | Tonight's TV highlightsEddie Waring – Mr Rugby League9pm, BBC4In the 1970s, Eddie Waring was the voice of rugby league. He helped popularise the great working-class riposte to the toffee-nosed union code but many decried him as a northern caricature. This sympathetic documentary traces his career, from a dapper entrepreneur in the 1930s, his heyday comme...

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