The State of Play
Clare Balding with Professors Richard Holt, Tony Collins and Mike Cronin explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sp...
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Sport and the British
Clare Balding presents a 30-part series charting how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport
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20 of 30 episodesGlobalisation
Clare Balding explores the way global television has changed our relationship with sport forever. It's no longer seasonal and is bankrolled...
Rugby's Big Bang
Clare Balding explores why Rugby Union tried to stand firm against the encroaching tide of professionalism and in August 1995, lost. One by...
Golden Girls
In the final week of her series exploring how sport made Britain and Britain made sport, Clare Balding looks at the female British athletes...
Sport for All
Clare Balding asks why and when did the British government get involved in sport. How did sport become part of politics, in a country which...
Beating Us at Our Own Game
Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football. Yet in giving it to others, the British lost control of the...
The Gentleman Amateur
Clare Balding's at Lords Cricket ground in London to explore the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional player, as...
Driving Innovation
Clare Balding continues to explore how Britain shaped sport and sport shaped Britain. Horse racing may be the sport of kings but the princes...
Broadcasting to the Nation
Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever. Radio played a crucial role in the popularisation of s...
War Games
Week five of the series that explores how sport made Britain and Britain made sport. In this episode Clare Balding visits The Imperial War M...
Ireland, North of the Border
While sport is endlessly talked of as a force for unity, in today's edition of Sport and the British, Clare Balding's in Belfast on the Fall...
Ireland, Politics on the Pitch
Clare Balding visits Croke Park in Dublin, to discover the story behind the formation of the Gaelic Athletic Association and it's founder Mi...
Welsh Rugby and Its National Heroes
Clare Balding's at Cardiff Arms Park for this edition of the series that explores how sport made Britain and Britain made sport. Here she lo...
Anyone But England
Clare Balding continues her investigation into how sport shaped Britain and Britain shaped sport. Today we join her at Hampden Park in Glasg...
Cricket and the English Hero
Clare Balding continues her investigation into how sport shaped Britain and Britain shaped sport. In this weeks programmes she looks at how...
A Bit of a Flutter
Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport as she continues her exploration into how Britain made sp...
Women Between the Wars
Clare Balding discovers how working women finally got their sporting chance, through the leisure activities offered by many major employers,...
Fighting Back
Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.Through the centuries, immigrants have had to literal...
Tennis and Golf in Suburbia
Clare Balding continues to explore the history of sport in Britain and in today's programme visits one of the oldest tennis clubs in the cou...
Rugby's Great Split
As Clare Balding continues to explore the unique relationship Britain has had with sport, in today's programme she tells a tale of lies, wit...
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