BBC Radio Podcasts from Sneakernomics

Sneakernomics

9. Footnotes

Our story goes full circle as two shoe-making brothers light the path for the future.

8. Nobody Remembers Number Two

How the Battle of the Brands reaches new heights in the 1980s.

7. The Cri de Coeur

How trainers leapt from sport to street in the UK and, in Oregon, the end of an era.

6. Kingmaker

How money began to pour into sport and how the brands were right there when it happened.

5. The Birth of Cool

How celebrity began to change the face of sport, and how boards went from surf to street.

4. A Fistful of Shoes

How the shoe wars and the Dassler family rivalry reached their peak in Mexico 1968.

3. The Committee of Sleep

How an Oregon track coach ignited the running boom in America.

2. Dassler vs. Dassler

How two shoe-making brothers played a part in altering German history.

1. The Town of Bent Necks

The sibling rivalry that spawned two of the world's biggest sports brands.

Welcome to Sneakernomics

The battle to be the world's biggest sports brand.