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Live Saturday morning global sports show with reports, debate and humour.
Do you ever find yourself thinking back to the good old days, whenever they were, and thinking about someone you've not seen for a while and...
Author Dagny Scott Barrios, once wrote “Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day's canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are w...
"It is never too late to be what you might have been" so wrote the Victorian author George Elliot. Having searched the globe for the best st...
It's amazing how many people are involved in anyone sporting endeavour... Of course the athletes are the stars of the show, but then there's...
Sometimes the daily grind can feel like climbing the sheer face of a mountain, and all that's keeping you hanging are the very tips of your...
Risk and fear are bed fellows. It's difficult not to feel some fear when you are taking a risk... But as some people are fond of saying "The...
When we see our sporting heroes it's often in highly pressurised situations... and yet the look calm, controlled and steely eyed... but what...
Growing up, Katrina Webb was crazy about sport. But aged eighteen she had a choice to make. Did she continue to hide her disability? Or embr...
The Seven Summits are considered one of the greatest challenges in mountaineering worldwide. It takes some effort to to conquer the highest...
When Steve Bate received a life-changing diagnosis he knew there wasn’t much he could do about his condition, but he had total control over...
Here on Not by the Playbook we know "communication is key". Making sure what we say is clear and concise is one of the crucial elements to a...
Linda Ashmore, Ironman competitor and age-group world champion, shows us that qualifying for the world stage can come later in life. Team GB...
Wrap up warm, because this week all our stories are about winter sports. We'll go cross-country skiing in Italy, play ice hockey on the equa...
Sometimes realising your dream can all be a bit much. Leonard Russell was drafter 14th overall when the Patriots signed him. The franchise w...
February, the month of love, the one with the fewest days and the in the northern hemisphere the last month of winter, but what you might no...
A record breaking NFL star, the woman who won bronze in only her third ever marathon and the swimmer who took on the drug cheats and won! Th...
Life is full of challenges. Some are caused by circumstances we have no control over. Sometimes our struggles are rooted in long held social...
Sometimes the odds seem so stacked up, and the challenges so large you can lose your sense of self when trying to navigate a path to success...
We look back on a year full of inspirational stories from around the world and interviews with people defying the odds! Inspirational storie...
Hockey means different things to different people. In India it's second only to cricket in terms of popularity, but no the kind that is play...
Having scoured the globe for the best stories from the world of sport we've decided to just drop in and hang about. Don't you think the best...
For nearly 50 years drivers have attempted to navigate the Paris to Dakar Rally. It is an off-road endurance event over all types of terrain...
***The first part of this interview discusses topics that some may find distressing*** At 6ft 4' and over 300 pounds, Welshwoman Rebecca Rob...
Dame Laura Kenny is the most decorated female cyclist in Olympic history with 5 gold and one silver medal. Alongside her husband Sir Jason K...
Imagine being10 metres in the air wearing nothing more than a pair of swimming trunks, with the eyes of thousands of fans staring up. It's 2...
They say there are two types of people, those who see the glass half-empty, and those who see it half-full. Which one are you? For this edit...
You ever get that feeling things aren't quite what they seem to be? That feeling when something looks, smells and sounds as you'd expect, bu...
Basketball pioneer Ann Meyers Drysdale joins us to look at her remarkable career on and off the court. A leading light as women's profession...
They say if you want a stable relationship, get a horse! But hey sometimes doing things off the hoof works just as well. This week we're sad...
We like to think of ourselves as a bit maverick here on Not by the Playbook. Nothing too outrageous, but we like to think outside of the box...
Katie Smith presents a show all about survival and Dutch triathlete Els Visser knows exactly what it takes to survive against the odds. In 2...
On the weekend where the USA and Europe go head-to-head at golf's Ryder Cup, Not by the Playbook’s Katie Smith is bringing you inspirational...
Between the Olympics of 1924 and 1948, art was competed for at the Games. Gold medals were awarded in painting, architecture and poetry. It...
River...Martin Strel is a swimming marvel. The Slovenian holds multiple world records, and his specialty is swimming the entire length of ri...
Every Hollywood box office success needs a great title track, and that's certainly true of hit 1980's coming of age film St Elmo's Fire. Dem...
New Orleans is known as the party capital of the South, synonymous with warm welcomes, Mardi Gras, and all that Jazz. But in August 2005 tha...
Not by the Playbook is celebrating the start of the Women’s Rugby World Cup by hearing from two people who know what it’s like to compete on...
Could there be a bigger contrast? As the richest soccer league in the world, the English Premier League, gets it new season underway we are...
In 2001 Wojtek Czyz had just signed his first professional contract with the German football side Fortuna Köln. His career was set for take-...
We meet the ultra-marathon runner with a love of breaking records and taboos. As side from breaking the two treadmill World Record, Sophie P...
Not by the Playbook’s Katie Smith is in Switzerland venue of the 2025 Women’s European Championship final. Our first guest couldn't be furth...
LA is the spiritual home of skateboarding. But it has come a long way from its past as “counterculture” and is now part of the Olympic games...
Roger Taylor was the British tennis number one who fell out with his contemporaries while coming tantalisingly close to winning Wimbledon. H...
Our guest this week prove 'W' stands for winners. We hear from Sir Bradley Wiggins, Lori Walton, Jim and Jeff Whitley and Sir Clyde Walcott....
Climber Janja Garnbret is one of the best examples of how easy becoming an Olympic champion can look. In both Tokyo and Paris she seemingly...
Not by the Playbook comes from The Queen’s Club in London where Katie Smith is unboxing her pack of cards. British para standing tennis play...
Sir Roger Bannister is most famous for being the first man to ever run a sub 4 minute mile. He once said "The man who can drive himself furt...
Basketball pioneer Paoline Ekambi's changed the perceptions of women's basketball in the 1980's when she played in the USA. She introduced a...
Not by the Playbook’s Mani Djazmi speaks to the World’s Strongest Man after South Africa’s Rayno Nel became the first champion from outside...
Not by the Playbook’s Katie Smith is scouring the world’s surface for extraordinary stories – from the depths of the ocean to an extreme tri...