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2 unusual facts about Harry Carpenter


Gerald Sinstadt

He rejoined the BBC from the mid-1980s, working as a reporter and commentator for Football Focus and Match of the Day and covering other sports, such as rowing where he commentated on some of the Steve Redgrave / Matthew Pinsent Olympic successes, and covering the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in the early 1990s, succeeding Harry Carpenter but soon replaced by Barry Davies.

Wayne Dobson

Back in the UK he was asked to perform in the 1989 Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium, where he scored a great success with an act in which he was assisted by boxer Frank Bruno and sports commentator Harry Carpenter.



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