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The real, heart-breaking story of a man the world arrived to know as the 'ghost runner'. The unknown man threw off his disguise and began to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The group roared. A tale was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant: the outstanding man whom no one could stop. As the hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid £17 expenses. When he wanted to run, he was prohibited forever. Now he was fighting with each other again, gate-crashing races around Britain. No amount on his t shirt; no friends in high places. Soon he'd be considered a record-breaker, one of the biggest long-distance runners the world has ever before seen. This is his true story: The Ghost Runner. Expenses Jones proved helpful for Granada Television for 27 years, where he was an award-winning documentary maker. He was researching a documentary about the centenary of the Manchester jogging membership, Salford Harriers, in 1985 when he first came across the story of John Tarrant and it includes haunted him since.
