Richard T Kelly
Writer Richard T Kelly considers the plight of the working-class sportsman whose glory days are numbered in Lindsay Anderson's 1960s film This Sporting Life.
In this series, five writers look at how sports have been captured in the arts, from novels to film, photography to painting. Each looks at how the sport illuminates and resonates in the artform, and how it increases our understanding and love of the sport.
Today: the grit and steel of rugby league, as Richard T. Kelly considers the plight of the working-class sportsman whose glory days are numbered in Lindsay Anderson's 1960s film, 'This Sporting Life'.
Richard T. Kelly is the author of several books on film, as well as a TV documentary on the dogme movement, as well as two novels.
Producer: Justine Willett.
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