Sport
Sport is a major part of the schedule, with a 3-hour sports-based programme each weeknight evening and 4-hour sport specials on Saturdays and Sundays. This time slot is considerably more than most other BBC local radio stations and reflects London's large number of sporting teams and events.
During the cricket season, BBC London 94.9 also supports Internet-only streamed commentary of all games featuring Surrey County Cricket Club (with Mark Church as main commentator) and Middlesex County Cricket Club (with Kevin Hand as main commentator). The commentators give brief game updates on main BBC London 94.9 broadcast throughout the day.
The current presenters and commentators include Phil Parry, Andy Rowley, Ankur Desai, Nick Godwin, Emma Jones, Emilia Papadopoulos, Steve Bunce, Mike Lawrence, Simon Watts, Kevin Hand, Mark Church, Pete Stevens, Sara Orchard, Will Shindler and David Croft.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)