The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
World Service,·710 episodes
In 1967, Geoff Twentyman joined Liverpool as a chief scout
27 Apr 2024,·8 mins
How Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins brought new audiences to snooker with his playboy lifestyle
20 Apr 2024,·9 mins
In 2004, Mianne Bagger became the first transgender professional golfer
13 Apr 2024,·9 mins
In 2007, Martin Strel became the first person to swim the entire length of the Amazon
06 Apr 2024,·9 mins
The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
05 Apr 2024,·32 mins,·
Ten thousand people watched the unlikely fight in 1997
30 Mar 2024,·9 mins
In 1980, Roland Butcher became the first black cricketer to play for the England team
23 Mar 2024,·9 mins
In 2005, badminton champion Rajeev Bagga took his total of Deaflympic gold medals to 14
16 Mar 2024,·9 mins
In 1976, the first person won a Formula One race in a six-wheeled car
09 Mar 2024,·9 mins
In 1984, Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss completed the Olympic marathon in terrible pain
02 Mar 2024,·8 mins
How American Samoa were beaten 31-0 by Australia in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers
24 Feb 2024,·9 mins
One of Africa's worst sporting disasters happened in Cairo in 1974
17 Feb 2024,·10 mins
How a football victory in 1996 helped South Africa heal the wounds of apartheid
10 Feb 2024,·9 mins
The story of the first black African to compete at the Winter Olympics
03 Feb 2024,·9 mins
How badminton player Lin Dan won the Super Grand Slam - all 9 major titles in the sport
27 Jan 2024,·9 mins
How only 69 of the 10,000 skaters finished in one of the world's toughest ice races
20 Jan 2024,·8 mins
In 2000, Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson became manager of England’s men’s football team.
13 Jan 2024,·9 mins
Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima on how his lead in the 2004 Olympic marathon was destroyed
06 Jan 2024,·9 mins
How Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Everest in 1970
30 Dec 2023,·9 mins
In 2009, world champion runner Caster Semenya faced questions about her gender
23 Dec 2023,·10 mins
How Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men’s title for the first time in 2003
16 Dec 2023,·9 mins
Jan Tian says his devotion to coding the first EA Sports Fifa game nearly broke him
09 Dec 2023,·10 mins
In 1978, West Bromwich Albion became British ambassadors in China.
02 Dec 2023,·9 mins
How Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh combined two of his passions – chess and boxing
18 Nov 2023,·9 mins
How snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis lost gold in 2006's Winter Olympics
11 Nov 2023,·9 mins
In 2010, Egypt completed an unprecedented treble in the Africa Cup of Nations.
04 Nov 2023,·8 mins
Sir Clive Woodward and George Gregan recount England's victory over Australia in 2003
28 Oct 2023,·8 mins
Joseph Pilates taught his fitness method in a studio in New York to Mary Bowen
21 Oct 2023,·9 mins
How Manly Beach in Australia hosted the first official World Surfing Championships.
14 Oct 2023,·11 mins
How the Netherlands embarrased England at Lord's in the 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup
07 Oct 2023,·9 mins
