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Exactly what is rugby football?
This is the essence of our show. A sixty-minute radio program about the history, great characters, nuances (subtle, obtuse and imaginative) and vast growth of rugby throughout the world. The Rugby Hour explores new territory and is very different than the usual dross you might have heard. Listen and learn one more thing you didn't know the day before. Rugby transcends sport - it is social, political, athletic, tragic, dramatic and intellectual. Rugby is indeed a performing art.
The Rugby Hour is produced by John Howe and Kurt Mockenhaupt and originates from Washington, D.C., USA from the Fairfax Public Access radio and television network. The show is cablecast on Cox Communications Cable Channel 7 and 37 and Verizon Cable Channel 37 in Fairfax County, Virginia as well as Comcast Cable Channel 27 in Reston, Virginia. The show is globally webcast streamed on WEBR. The show is streamed live Wednesdays from 8-9am and is now RE-BROADCASTED Tuesdays from Noon to 1pm.
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4-9-08
TRH #66
John chats with Leanne Pooley, producer and director of Spacific Films' 2006 documentary release, Try Revolution which chronicles the Springboks 1981 tour of New Zealand. This riveting film explores how the rugby relationship between New Zealand and the Springboks was exploited to help to bring down the apartheid political system in South Africa. The film and Ms. Pooley were finalists for major film awards in New Zealand for this production.
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3-19-08
TRH #65
Wales Wednesday. Whilst Kurt is on hiatus, John steps into the footlights for TRH Radio Theatre's performance of Sir Richard Burton's rugby short stories, "The Immortal Dive of P.C. Mog" and "The First Shall Be Last, So I'll Tell You The Last". Welsh National Treasure Bryn Terfel provides a backdrop as thespian Howe weaves the story of Wales' famous and unlikely 2008 Grand Slam Six Nations title. |
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Six Nations Championship Cup
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03-05-08
TRH #64:
We find immortal academic and rugby raconteur, Dr. Eamon Harper, having camped in the studio for a fortnight waiting to extend dialog (with an Irish purview) on Round 4 RBS 6 Nations. This week's show also covers John Scally's entertaining "Legends of Irish Rugby, Forty Golden Greats", rugby as fashion faux pas, Euro walkabout for rugby as charity and flatulence (on the pitch) as a professional foul (see www.irb.com/lawregulations). |
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Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan
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02-20-08
TRH #63:
The craic is mighty (for 8 am) as The Rugby Hour welcomes back rugby academic Dr. Eamon Harper and publican Mark Kirwan for Irish analysis and views on the 2008 RBS 6 Nations Tourney. We learn about Lt. Col Paddy Mayne, Willie John McBride, Trevor Brennan's biography, adult/co-ed tag rugby and why not to drink the clubhouse shower water. |
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