Sporting Witness Episodes Available now
Judit Polgar - the chess champion who defied stereotypes
How the chess prodigy overcame sexism in her sport and defeated the all-time greats.
The 'Blind Maradona'
The story of Silvio Velo, the captain of Argentina's world-beating blind football team
India's Queen of the Oceans
How Bula Choudhury was the first woman to swim straits of the world's seven seas.
Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian
The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.
Viv Anderson - first black England footballer
In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.
Surfing the world's biggest waves
Garrett McNamara broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2011 at Nazaré
Africa's football revolution
Ex-Premiership star Kolo Toure on how a team in Ivory Coast modernised football in Africa
South Africa's black rowing hero
How Sizwe Ndlovu became the first black African to win an Olympic rowing gold in 2012.
Cathy Freeman
The aboriginal runner who became the hero of the Sydney Olympics in 2000
Australia's 'Madam Butterfly'
Susie O'Neill experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat at her home Olympics
