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THINK you’re tough? Try watching Going For Gold without crying.
Lisa Lintott says her award-winning play has brought the hardest of the hard men to tears.
Going For Gold is the story of Frankie Lucas, the one-time “wild man” of British boxing who went missing for three decades.
“When I was a kid in the 1960s and early 1970s, my mum had a shop on the estate where we lived,” says Lisa. “It was Frankie’s local shop.
“At the time, George Francis had the Noble Art Gym at Haverstock Hill. Frankie, John Conteh, Bunny Sterling and the rest of the boxers would run past my mum’s shop on their way to Hampstead Heath.
“Mum would leave milk and crusty rolls outside the shop and Frankie would come in for ox’s tongue.”
That memory stayed with Lisa.
“Fifty years later, I did a writing course and had to
