Who Dares Wins - Or How To Turn A Crisis Into An Action Drama
How a terrorist siege inspired the Lewis Collins vehicle that made up for what it lacked it taste in takings at the British box-office.
A version of this article appeared in The New European.
Snooker was a very big deal in 1980. And no master of the green baize was more popular than Northern Ireland's Alex Higgins. So it was quite a surprise when, with 'The Hurricane' in hot pursuit of a second World Snooker Championship, the BBC left the Sheffield Crucible for a different sort of a dram…
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