The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
World Service,·701 episodes
The Gulf state's first and only World Cup appearance, with a camel as team mascot
08 Apr 2021,·9 mins
How two Ghanaian athletes escaped during the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in 1990
01 Apr 2021,·9 mins
The story of Gail Grandchamp, who campaigned for the right of women to box in the USA.
25 Mar 2021,·9 mins
In 2003, A.C. Perugia signed Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan dictator
18 Mar 2021,·9 mins
How Honey Thaljieh started a soccer team for women in the occupied West Bank
11 Mar 2021,·9 mins
How Elliot Mujaji won the first ever Paralympic gold medal for his country in 2000.
04 Mar 2021,·9 mins
The first international sports event for LGBT athletes was held in San Francisco in 1982.
25 Feb 2021,·9 mins
Manon Rhéaume became the first and only woman to play in the National Hockey League
18 Feb 2021,·9 mins
How the hockey-player from Darwin broke barriers by winning an Olympic gold medal in 1996
11 Feb 2021,·9 mins
The activist and champion who pushed for American football's landmark diversity policy
04 Feb 2021,·9 mins
In 2004, Mianne Bagger became the first transitioned woman to play professional golf
28 Jan 2021,·9 mins
The Leeds United legend who won the Africa Cup of Nations with South Africa in 1996
21 Jan 2021,·9 mins
In January 2001, Germany's Jutta Kleinschmidt won one of the biggest races in motorsport
14 Jan 2021,·9 mins
The American serviceman who won swimming glory a year after being blinded by a bomb
07 Jan 2021,·9 mins
The Canadian who's made a career out of dancing at big sports events around the world
31 Dec 2020,·9 mins
Pete Goss’s heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race
24 Dec 2020,·9 mins
The motorbike world champion whose high-speed triumphs united a divided country
17 Dec 2020,·9 mins
How campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK
10 Dec 2020,·9 mins
How the West Indian all-rounder took England by storm in the 1920s and 30s.
03 Dec 2020,·9 mins
Ex-England striker Gary Lineker on Maradona's legendary World Cup quarter-final in 1986
26 Nov 2020,·9 mins
How the chess prodigy overcame sexism in her sport and defeated the all-time greats.
19 Nov 2020,·9 mins
The story of Silvio Velo, the captain of Argentina's world-beating blind football team
12 Nov 2020,·9 mins
How Bula Choudhury was the first woman to swim straits of the world's seven seas.
05 Nov 2020,·9 mins
The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.
29 Oct 2020,·9 mins
In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.
22 Oct 2020,·9 mins
Garrett McNamara broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2011 at Nazaré
15 Oct 2020,·9 mins
Ex-Premiership star Kolo Toure on how a team in Ivory Coast modernised football in Africa
08 Oct 2020,·9 mins
How Sizwe Ndlovu became the first black African to win an Olympic rowing gold in 2012.
01 Oct 2020,·9 mins
The aboriginal runner who became the hero of the Sydney Olympics in 2000
24 Sep 2020,·9 mins
Susie O'Neill experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat at her home Olympics
17 Sep 2020,·9 mins
