Gods of Tennis: Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe


11:05 pm - 12:05 am, Thursday, June 18 on BBC Two England (2)

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About this Broadcast

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Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe

Framed through the world-famous Wimbledon tournament, this documentary revisits a golden age of tennis during the 1970s and 1980s that changed the sport for ever. It begins in 1975 as two tennis greats - Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe - aim to win Wimbledon titles but also, in their own ways, to change the world for the better. Back in the late 1960s, as the women's liberation movement became headline news, King took up the gauntlet for women in sport, spearheading the drive for equal prize money and equal treatment


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Cast & Crew

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Simon Draper (Director)
Arron Fellows (Executive producer)
Nina Davies (Executive producer)

Before / After

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Newsnight
10:30 pm