Great Sporting Moments

Recording used by permission of the BBC. Simon Armitage reading 'Great Sporting Moments' for Stanza / The State of Things broadcast on 11th August 1992 - from Kid (Faber and Faber, 1991). Copyright Simon Armitage, 1991.

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