The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
World Service,·710 episodes
Altitude sickness caused 10,000m race favourite to collapse at the finishing line in 1968
16 Dec 2011,·9 mins
How Canada beat the Soviet Union to win one of the biggest ice hockey games of all time.
9 mins
How he escaped apartheid South Africa and achieved international success
The Princess talks about being part of the British eventing team at the Montreal Olympics
25 Nov 2011,·9 mins
How table tennis helped bridge the divide between the US and Maoist China in 1971.
10 mins
How the 1980 Moscow Olympics created a moral dilemma for British swimmer, Duncan Goodhew.
How the 1995 Rugby World Cup helped unite the new South Africa.
In October 1974 one of the greatest boxing matches of all time took place in Zaire
29 Oct 2011,·10 mins
How the Boston Red Sox finally won the baseball World Series in 2004.
The story of Africa's greatest Olympic sprinter.
The first Paralympics were held in Rome in 1960.
How the Australian yachting team won the America's Cup in 1983.
Israeli athletes remember the shootings at the Munich Olympics of 1972.
The incredible story of the star of the 1912 Olympics
How American athlete Dick Fosbury revolutionised the high jump
A win for the West Indies in 1950 at Lord's made the team a force in international cricket
How Sir Alex Ferguson made his reputation as a manager at Aberdeen in the 1980s
How an Olympic water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union turned into a battle
20 Aug 2011,·10 mins
The extraordinary life of Eric Liddell, the runner featued in the film Chariots of Fire
The Romanian recalls how in 1976 - at 14 - she achieved a perfect score for gymnastics
