Colin Murray’s doc wins New York Festivals Award

Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 live documentary 100 Years of the New York Yankees: A Bronx Tale  has won a gold award at the New York Festivals Radio Program Awards.

The show, which broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live in April last year, was nominated in the Information and Documentary sports and recreation category. The documentary followed Colin as he discovered the story of the baseball team’s remarkable rise from the Bronx to worldwide fame; looking into the key players and teams over the past 100 years.

Colin says: “Thankfully, 100 Years of the New York Yankees: A Bronx Tale is not just for fans of the ‘boys of summer’, but it also isn’t simplified so that real baseball fans have nothing new to enjoy. It doesn’t need to be, as the Yankees’ story is about so much more than 27 World Series titles. It’s about the Bronx, through the dawn of the dancehall, prohibition, and the birth of hip-hop. It’s about global icons such as Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe. It’s about a baseball club that spend money by the truck load, demand only success, yet spurn some of the most selfless superstars sport has ever produced.”