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Murray Watson - Life and Times of BILL McLAREN, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Life and Times of BILL McLAREN

They’ll be dancing in the streets of Hawick

Av Murray Watson

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The Life and Times of Bill McLaren is a revealing new biography about the much-loved broadcaster, Bill McLaren. Based on an extensive new digital archive created by the author and the University of Stirling, this collection is a treasure trove of new information to provide a timely appreciation of Bill's work, his life and cultural influence.Exploring thousands of personal letters, documents and oral history interviews this book traces Bill's life from the ultra-detailed scrapbooks of his childhood to his war time service in Italy, to his days as a talented rugby player cut short by TB, to his marriage, followed by a stellar career in journalism, as a PE teacher and a broadcaster. This new biography is also a love story about McLaren's passion for rugby, the town of Hawick, his family and the love of his life and soul mate for 60 years, Bette.The book analyses what made Bill's commentaries and journalism special: his forensic attention to detail and his multifaceted methodology for collecting, storing and retrieving data in his chaotic study. To enrich his commentaries Bill developed his version of spreadsheets long before computerised spreadsheets came into common use. Arguably Bill's Big Sheets operated through his unique cognitive approach, a form of pre-digital Artificial Intelligence.Using genuinely interesting, funny, intriguing, relevant and meaningful stories and anecdotes the book helps the reader understand why Bill's voice echoes through rugby. It echoes because it was earned - through thousands of hours of work that nobody saw, but everyone felt.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-22
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 613 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 252
  • Förlag: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781836158264
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Murray Watson has known Bill McLaren since he was a wee boy. Murray, a passionate rugby supporter and former player, comes from and lives, very happily, in the Scottish Borders with his wife of 55 years. He is a retired entrepreneur, having founded MOI Global, an international B2B agency, before becoming an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, where he gained a PhD in 2003.He has has written four other books: Being English in Scotland, Invisible Immigrants: the English in Canada Since 1945, Voices of Hawick Rugby and a novel, Distorted by Time. He was co-founder of the Hawick RFC Rugby Memories Club in association with Alzheimer Scotland and was instrumental in helping put together the Bill McLaren Digital Archive which is considered to be a collection of national importance. He also curated the Bill McLaren exhibition which, is on display in the press gallery at Murrayfield StadiumAndy Irvine, the British Lions and Scotland rugby legend, who occasionally commentated alongside Bill McLaren contributed a foreword; as did Bill's daughter, Linda Lawson, who observed that the biography told her things that she did not know about her dad.

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"What a fantastic read, it helps you understand what made Bill, the Voice of Rugby, such a greatcommentator." Andy Irvine, British Lions and Scotland"A wonderful record of Dad's life, incorporating so many details previously unknown to many."Linda Lawson"Fascinating. A must read for anyone who wants to know more about the huge impact Bill had onthe game we all love." Tony Stanger, British Lions and Scotland"This is an extraordinary work in which Bill McLaren's personality and humanity shines out."David Haward

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