Still time to catch touching Jim Baxter film on iPlayer

A few weeks left to catch Purple TV‘s film about Fife’s – and many would say Scotland’s – finest footballer Jim Baxter on BBC iPlayer. Baxter, who came from Hill of Beath, was famously funny and charming if enigmatic and unpredictable. The film suggests this complex character might have had its roots in the fact that Baxter was given up by his mother as a baby. The footballer was devastated,