t nights televidion track... NEVER mind the speed on the track, the script of The Four Minute Mile (BBC 1)

... amok. Had Roger Bannister and co been this pedestrian, they'd have been lucky to outpace a milk float. Part of the problem, | suppose, is that we expect such heroic endeavours to be achieved by people with colossal charismas. Roger Bannister came across ...

Published: Monday 12 September 1988
Newspaper: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

t nights televidion track... NEVER mind the speed on the track, the script of The Four Minute Mile (BBC 1)

... amok. Had Roger Bannister and co been this pedestrian, they'd have been lucky to outpace a milk fleat. Part of the problem, | suppose, is that we expect such heroic endeavours to be achieved by people with colossal charismas. Roger Bannister came across ...

Published: Monday 12 September 1988
Newspaper: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

6.40 SONGS OF PRAISE 7.15 FIRST OF THE SUMMER WINE

... HOWARDS' WAY 8.35 BREAD. 9.05 SUNDAY PREMIERE: THE FOURMINUTE MILE. First of two parts. For two brilliant young Athletes — Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia — the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1988
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Critic’s choice ‘

... break the four-minute mile. o The race is on and Roger Bannister and John Landy face the prospect of running against each other for the first time at the 1954 Empire Games. Starring Richard Huw as Bannister, Nique Needles as Landy. ...

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... Ferdinand Magelian c. Sir Francis Drake 3. Who was the first man 1o rur 3 mile in under our minu a. Eric Liddell b. Roger Bannister c. Marold Abrahms ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1988
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Sunda é 1

... Weather. SONGS OF PRAISE FIRST OF THE SUMMER WINE (new series) HOWARDS’ WAY (new series) BREAD. THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE (Roger Bannister epic). NEWS; Weather. EVERYMAN. SKY AT NIGHT. NETWORK EAST. EUROPEAN GOLF OPEN. WEATHER. ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1988
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

= Sportalk @ ‘“‘Sport is nothing if it is not fair and it cannot be fair when medical aids, artificial

... if it is not fair and it cannot be fair when medical aids, artificial aids are used to enhance performances '’ - SIR ROGER BANNISTER after the Ben Johnson scandal at the Olympics. ® ‘“‘Ben Johnson is a disgrace who should be stripped of all the medals ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1988
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 157 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

ONERHISIDAY

... the new Coventry Cathedral. ® 1965: Gemini 3 sbaéécn:a_fi launched with John Young and Virgil Grissom. BIRGHDANS! Sir Roger Bannister, first man to run the sub-four-minute mile, 59. Norman Bailey, operatic baritone, 55. Barry Cryer, broadcaster and sc ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1988
Newspaper: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 130 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ONERHISIDAY

... “Citizen Kane”, born in Wisconsin, USA. i ® 1941: Joseph Stalin was made leader of the USSR government. ® 1954: When Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds, Norris McWhirter, who created the ‘‘Guinness Book of Records’’ ...

It seems like only yesterday

... yesterday that Roger Bannister raced into athletics history by becoming the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier at the Iffley Road track, Oxford, on May 6, 1954. Paced by the two Christophers — Chataway and Brasher — Bannister, a 25- year-old ...