A fantastic adventure
"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul." So said US actress Jamie Lyn Beatty. So this week we fill your soul with fantastical...
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20 of 577 episodesWorld Cup: Beyond the pitch
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death... I can assure them it is much more serious than that." So said legendary Liverpo...
Close knit
This week we take a tour of England highlighting the stories and legends from every part of "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this...
Pioneering
Four pioneers from four different sports all of whom trod a path where no path had previously existed. Along the way their determination not...
Dominance
Winning is great, but hard work. Never loosing is much rarer and almost impossible. This week four elite sport stars who didn't just win, th...
'Cold hands, warm heart'
We start in the Arctic Circle, via the Welsh valleys, where Cath Pendleton has always loved swimming. Born from a childhood playing in the r...
What happened next
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...
Run for your life
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...
Why it's never too late
"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...
Organ-ised chaos
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...
Clinging on
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
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...
The swan effect
When we see our sporting heroes it's often in highly pressurised situations... and yet the look calm, controlled and steely eyed... but what...
Doing things differently
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...
On top of the world!
The Seven Summits are considered one of the greatest challenges in mountaineering worldwide. It takes some effort to to conquer the highest...
Turning obstacles into opportunity
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...
What did you say?
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...
When sport leads somewhere new
Linda Ashmore, Ironman competitor and age-group world champion, shows us that qualifying for the world stage can come later in life. Team GB...
Winter Wonderland
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...
Super Bowl: Story of redemption
Sometimes realising your dream can all be a bit much. Leonard Russell was drafter 14th overall when the Patriots signed him. The franchise w...