Clare Balding explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.
Clare Balding explores the way television has changed our relationship with sport forever.
Clare Balding explores the demise of the amateurism in rugby union.
Clare Balding explains how the 1960s saw women athletes finally take centre stage.
Clare Balding asks why and when the British government got involved in sport.
Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football.
Clare Balding on the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional.
Clare Balding is at Silverstone to explore how Britain led the way in motor racing.
Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever.
Clare Balding explores the vital role sport has played during both world wars.
Clare is in Belfast to explore the impact that the Troubles had on sport in the region.
Clare Balding is at Croke Park in Dublin to discover how Ireland developed its own sports.
Clare Balding explores the role rugby has played in shaping Welsh national identity.
Clare Balding explores the role football has played in shaping Scottish national identity.
Clare investigates the role our sporting heroes play in shaping national identity.
Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport.
Clare Balding discovers how working women were finally given their sporting chance.
Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.
Clare Balding discovers how tennis and golf clubs were borne of Victorian middle classes.
Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.
Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world.
Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business
Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together
Clare Balding explores the founding of the Football Association in 1863.
Clare discovers the freedom that Victorian public school girls found on the sports field.
Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.
Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.
Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.
Unlike the French, was it our bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution?
Claire visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics.