Sport and the British
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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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30 एपिसोडThe State of Play
Clare Balding with Professors Richard Holt, Tony Collins and Mike Cronin explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.
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Globalisation
Clare Balding explores the way global television has changed our relationship with sport forever. It's no longer seasonal and is bankrolled by TV inco...
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 one...
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 of the 196...
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 had always...
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 game they...
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 the 1960'...
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, playboys...
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 sport, sudd...
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 Museum to d...
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 Falls Road, wh...
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 Michael Cusa...
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 looks at the...
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 Glasgow as she...
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 spor...
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 sport and 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, at the tu...
Fighting Back
Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.Through the centuries, immigrants have had to literally fight f...
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 country in Le...
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, witch hunts,...
Exporting Football
Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world. She particularly looks at South America where the game is central t...
The Dawn of Professional Football
Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business and it all started in the Lancashire mill town of Preston....
The Formal Empire
In the nineteenth century a quarter of the world's habitable countries were part of the British Empire and if trade was the driving force behind it's...
The Corinthian Ideal
Clare Balding examines the era when footballers were expected to be gentlemen,both on and off the pitch. The Football Association founded in 1863 was...
Playing Like Ladies
Clare Balding discovers that the freedoms Victorian public school girls found on the sports field were a precursor to the political and social freedom...
The Making of Men
The Duke of Wellington never said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton but it could be argued that the might of the British Em...
The Unsporting Side of Sport
Clare Balding watches all sections of society gather on Epsom Downs to watch the Derby, the biggest day of the flat racing year. In her exploration of...
The Bare Fists of Boxing
Clare Balding explores the way the British have shaped sport and sport has shaped Britain.
An ability to box defined the 19th century alpha mal...
A Level Playing Field
CLARE BALDING explores how the British shaped sport and sport shaped Britain. If the French had played cricket, would they have prevented the revoluti...
The Rise of Olympism
CLARE BALDING charts how Britain has shaped sport and sport has shaped the British.Apart from the English language itself, the invention of modern spo...