The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
World Service,·701 episodes
Marianne Martin talks about winning the first official women’s Tour De France in 1984
29 Jul 2023,·9 mins
How Panini made their first football World Cup sticker album for the women's tournament.
22 Jul 2023,·9 mins
How the Czech player fought back from a tearful defeat to finally win Wimbledon in 1998
15 Jul 2023,·9 mins
How New Zealand's Chris Lewis, ranked 91 in the world, reached the Wimbledon men's final.
08 Jul 2023,·9 mins
How the football tournament first came about and challenged perceptions of homelessness.
01 Jul 2023,·9 mins
The Japanese gymnast who won a team gold in 1976 despite competing with a broken knee.
24 Jun 2023,·9 mins
How Australia's Mitchell Johnson recovered from ridicule and destroyed England's batsmen
17 Jun 2023,·9 mins
Can a man beat a horse in a race? Since 1980 a Welsh town has been trying to find out
10 Jun 2023,·9 mins
How South African Albert Johanneson became the first black footballer in the FA Cup final.
03 Jun 2023,·9 mins
When Arsenal went a full Premier League season unbeaten
27 May 2023,·9 mins
The 2010 Asian Games saw women’s kabaddi included for the first time
20 May 2023,·9 mins
The only game in English football history to be abandoned due to a shortage of players.
13 May 2023,·9 mins
How the first match of Japan's first professional football league kicked off in Tokyo
06 May 2023,·9 mins
How weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal
29 Apr 2023,·9 mins
In 1985, Libby Riddles became the first female winner of the Iditarod
22 Apr 2023,·9 mins
The story of the 150th Grand National which was disrupted by an IRA bomb scare.
15 Apr 2023,·9 mins
How wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk won the Boston Marathon a record-breaking tenth time.
08 Apr 2023,·9 mins
In 1993, European champions Marseille were charged with bribery and match fixing.
01 Apr 2023,·9 mins
French rugby star Nathalie Amiel reflects on winning the first Six Nations in 2002
23 Mar 2023,·9 mins
The footballer and coach loved by the people of Iraq
16 Mar 2023,·9 mins
She is the most capped netballer of all time
09 Mar 2023,·9 mins
A New Zealand referee quit after starting a riot during the Summer Olympics of 1988
02 Mar 2023,·9 mins
In 1950, Argentina hosted, and won, the inaugural Basketball World Cup
23 Feb 2023,·9 mins
American Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu became one of the most successful Muay Thai fighters
16 Feb 2023,·9 mins
In 2007, trainee priests competed to win the first football Clericus Cup
09 Feb 2023,·9 mins
Female cyclo-cross riders take part at the world championship in 2000 for the first time
02 Feb 2023,·9 mins
In 2006, a match-fixing scandal rocked Italian football
26 Jan 2023,·9 mins
At the age of 21, Tiger Woods won the US Masters in 1997 by dominating the golf course
19 Jan 2023,·9 mins
Barbara Kendall overcame injury to win gold in windsurfing at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics
12 Jan 2023,·9 mins
How cross-country skiing united a Kenyan farmer and a Norwegian Winter Olympic hero.
05 Jan 2023,·9 mins
