Book of the Week - Get Her Off The Pitch!
Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four years she spent as a sports reporter
Book of the Week - Get Her Off The Pitch! - Episode 1
How does a woman of literary tastes and neither knowledge of nor interest in sport end up covering great and not-so-great events for the sports section of a national newspaper?
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Book of the Week - Get Her Off The Pitch! - Episode 2
In 1999 Lynne is sent to Madison Square Garden to cover the fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis for the heavyweight championship of the world.
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Book of the Week - Get Her Off The Pitch! - Episode 3
Watching sport is one thing, but playing it is quite another. Lynne describes how she developed an enduring passion for golf.
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Book of the Week - Get Her Off The Pitch! - Episode 4
To outsiders, what could be better than to be paid to attend and write about world-class sporting events? Well, they don't know the half of it.
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Book of the Week - Get Her Off The Pitch! - Episode 5
By the autumn of 2000, Lynne has been covering sport for four years, but a combination of events leads her to ask a very simple question - just how important is sport?
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