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This Sporting Life (other)
''This Sporting Life'' is a 1963 drama film. This Sporting Life may also refer to: * ''This Sporting Life'' (novel), the 1960 novel on which the film is based * ''This Sporting Life'' (radio program), an Australian radio programme ** '' This Sporting Life'' (Roy & HG album), a 2016 retrospective comedy album * ''This Sporting Life'' (Skink and Demoralised album), a 2010 album by Skint & Demoralised * "This Sporting Life", a 1965 Ian Whitcomb song * "This Sporting Life", a 1981 The Mekons The Mekons are a British Post-punk band formed in 1976 as an art collective. They are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands. The band's style has evolved over time to incorporate aspects of co ... song See also * Sporting Life (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Sporting Life
''This Sporting Life'' is a 1963 British kitchen sink realism, kitchen sink drama (film and television), drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the This Sporting Life (novel), 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer in Wakefield, a mining city in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Storey, a former professional rugby league footballer, also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts (actress), Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell, and Alan Badel. It was Harris's first starring role, and won him the Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For her work in the film, Roberts won her second BAFTA Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Sporting Life (novel)
''This Sporting Life'' is a 1960 novel by the English writer David Storey. It is set in Northern England and follows a man who tries to make it as a professional rugby league footballer. It was the debut novel of Storey, himself a former player for Leeds. The book was the basis for Lindsay Anderson's 1963 film ''This Sporting Life''. Reception ''Kirkus Reviews'' wrote that "the strength of Mr. Storey's novel is in its toneless air of truth which spares nothing or no one, a fact which may well rebuff his readers." Commemorating the book's fiftieth anniversary in 2010, Frank Keating of ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...'' wrote that "''This Sporting Life'' has stood the test of 'classic' category ... The novel's uneasy love story of insecure anti-he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Sporting Life (radio Program)
''This Sporting Life'' was a culturally iconic Triple J radio comedy programme, created by award-winning actor-writer-comedians John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver, who performed as their characters Roy and HG. Broadcast from 1986 to 2008, it was one of the longest-running, most popular and most successful radio comedy programmes of the television era in Australia. Undoubtedly the longest-running show in Triple J's programming history, it commanded a large and dedicated nationwide audience throughout its 22-year run. The title ''This Sporting Life'' was taken from the novel and 1963 film of the same name. ''This Sporting Life'' was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013. Early years Often referred to by its initialism, TSL, the show was a parody of sporting panel programmes, although the duo cast a wide comedic net that encompassed entertainment, politics, celebrity and contemporary Australian culture in general. It was modeled to some e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Sporting Life (Roy & HG Album)
''This Sporting Life'' is the fifth album by Australian comedy duo Roy & HG. The album was released in August 2016 and peaked at number 6 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2016 it won Best Comedy Release. Background and release From 1986 to 2008, Roy & HG hosted ''This Sporting Life'' on Triple J Triple J is an Australian government-funded national radio station founded in 1975 as a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It aims to appeal to young listeners of alternative music, and plays far more Australian conten ..., a live, improvised satirical radio program on sport in Australia – among other things. It's the longest running show in the station's history. To celebrate 30 years since the show first aired, Roy & HG released a compilation album of some of the show's highlights from throughout the years. Reception Chris Murray from ''Stack'' said "The only problem with this 30th anniversary collection of some of the 'gold' from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |