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Tony Charlton

Tony Charlton

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Search complete. 12 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Tony Charlton".

Oct 20, 2026

Gerard WhateleyHOST
16:13
Thank you for sharing that with us on Know Your History.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
16:16
Viv, great memories of soup and hot dogs on a Saturday evening, watching football replay with Tony Charlton plus others.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
16:25
And Simo, I remember our parish priest changed the Saturday night service because too many people stayed home and watched the replay.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
16:33
He too wanted to watch, so he changed the mass times.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
16:37
And
Shannon GillGUEST
16:38
this is Tony Charlton.
Shannon GillGUEST
16:40
He called one of the first round of games that were played on TV.
Shannon GillGUEST
16:44
Tony Charlton was one of the callers.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:00
To understand where you're going, you have to recognise where you've been.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:03
Know your history, Tony Charlton, would boom, and that lights our way every Thursday at 11 o'clock.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:09
Shannon Gill is our Professor of History on a sporting front.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:13
Shannon, it's great to see you again.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:11
Know your history.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:12
Tony Charlton used to boom.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:13
Know your history.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:15
Hello to you, Shannon.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:02
Know your history.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:03
It was the mantra of legendary broadcaster Tony Charlton.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:07
He imparted it all on me a few times and it's left an imprint.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
0:10
So we rely on knowing our history through you.
Tony CharltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:47
I mean, you can jump over that roof, just thrilling, absolutely thrilling to see him rise in a pack and go way above them and If Gary looks good and you think Coleman's better, how do you paint a picture of that?
Shannon GillGUEST
16:04
Tony Charlton.
Shannon GillGUEST
16:05
And Tony Charlton is great in this film.
Shannon GillGUEST
16:06
So broadcaster who was there at the start of broadcasting footy, but had seen footy way back into the 50s and probably earlier, he's brilliant in this film.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
16:17
It tells the story of Coleman's rise and then the harassment that he was subjected to.
Shannon GillGUEST
18:43
And that's one of the things I like most about this is that the, There's all these greats of the game, but they're not like, and they are reflecting on their own stuff, but they're also paying tribute as fans of the game.
Shannon GillGUEST
18:55
You hear the legends.
Shannon GillGUEST
18:57
be reduced to just fans like us the norm smith segment incredible and i know like red bartlett's unearthed the full video of the tony charlton footy show when norm smith was sacked but part of this was shown as part of the documentary and not many people had seen it since it had been aired so that was a discovery
Shannon GillGUEST
8:40
Mike Williamson, Gordon Bennett, a true treasure in our media.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:43
Tony Charlton was there.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:45
So I imagine they're all, that was all, they're all funded to go over there, which, but it's, it's a great 30 minutes if you're ever.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:53
And it's called the 7,000 mile kick.
Shannon GillGUEST
11:51
They were selling it well.
Shannon GillGUEST
11:52
And there's, there's great, there's great sort of color about what happened on the day.
Shannon GillGUEST
11:56
Tony Charlton was the play by play over the speaker.
Shannon GillGUEST
12:00
And every time someone dropped a mark or missed a kick or something, he would say too much Broadway last night.

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