Winter of Our Discontent Australian Story : Season 2 Episode 29
ABC 30m int(0)
Aired: September 13th, 1997 @ 8:00 PM EST on ABC
The headlines spelled it out bluntly. "The public hanging of a rugby union coach" ... "Wallaby coach jumps ... before he was pushed." The epitaphs were being written for Greg Smith, the Shakespeare loving former English teacher, whose two year reign as coach of the national rugby union team had just come to an abrupt and ignominious end. But as the drama peaked, a team from Australian Story had already been behind the scenes filming for three weeks. The story they wanted was the universal, human story of a man and his family undergoing an agonising ordeal in the ...