Television Appearances and Portrayals
Gregg has appeared in a number of recent television programmes about Manchester United and the Munich Air Disaster, including Munich: End of a Dream – a documentary televised in 1998 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Munich tragedy. He was voted best goalkeeper of the tournament in the 1958 FIFA World Cup according to the FIFA documentary "FIFA fever". On the 50th anniversary of the air crash he appeared in the documentary One Life: Munich Air Disaster, broadcast 6 February 2008 on the BBC, in which he returned to the scene of the crash and the hospital for the first time and also met the son of Mrs Lukic who she was pregnant with at the time of the disaster. He expressed disappointment at never having been able to meet Mr Lukic, who had died in 2007.
He was portrayed by actor Ben Peel in a 2011 BBC film, United, which was centred around the Munich air disaster.
Gregg made an emotional account of the disaster on a TV program entitled: Munich Air Disaster: I Was There on the National Geographic Channel (UK). In particular it centres around a personal journey for a reunion with Vera Lukić, a Serbian woman(the wife of a Yugoslavian Diplomat), whom Gregg saved from the wreckage, as well as Vera's daughter Vesna, at the time a baby. Unknown to Gregg, Vera was also pregnant at the time of the disaster, so Gregg also rescued another life, that of Vera's son Zoran Lukić whom Gregg was shown meeting in the documentaryOne Life: Munich Air Disaster.
On Monday 16 April 2012 the National Geographic Channel (UK) broadcast a UK new episode of Mayday (TV series)(also known as Air Crash Investigation, Air Emergency and Air Disasters) entitled Munich Air Disaster(Season 11 Episode 5) in which Gregg describes the lead up to the disaster and the aftermath. He is also portrayed by an actor which shows how he rescued many people from the burning fuselage.
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