Clare Balding explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.
Published on Friday, 9th March 2012.
Clare Balding explores the way television has changed our relationship with sport forever.
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2012.
Clare Balding explores the demise of the amateurism in rugby union.
Published on Wednesday, 7th March 2012.
Clare Balding explains how the 1960s saw women athletes finally take centre stage.
Published on Tuesday, 6th March 2012.
Clare Balding asks why and when the British government got involved in sport.
Published on Monday, 5th March 2012.
Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football.
Published on Friday, 2nd March 2012.
Clare Balding on the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional.
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2012.
Clare Balding is at Silverstone to explore how Britain led the way in motor racing.
Published on Wednesday, 29th February 2012.
Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever.
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2012.
Clare Balding explores the vital role sport has played during both world wars.
Published on Monday, 27th February 2012.
Clare is in Belfast to explore the impact that the Troubles had on sport in the region.
Published on Friday, 24th February 2012.
Clare Balding is at Croke Park in Dublin to discover how Ireland developed its own sports.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2012.
Clare Balding explores the role rugby has played in shaping Welsh national identity.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd February 2012.
Clare Balding explores the role football has played in shaping Scottish national identity.
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2012.
Clare investigates the role our sporting heroes play in shaping national identity.
Published on Monday, 20th February 2012.
Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport.
Published on Friday, 17th February 2012.
Clare Balding discovers how working women were finally given their sporting chance.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2012.
Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.
Published on Wednesday, 15th February 2012.
Clare Balding discovers how tennis and golf clubs were borne of Victorian middle classes.
Published on Tuesday, 14th February 2012.
Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.
Published on Monday, 13th February 2012.
Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world.
Published on Friday, 10th February 2012.
Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2012.
Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together
Published on Wednesday, 8th February 2012.
Clare Balding explores the founding of the Football Association in 1863.
Published on Tuesday, 7th February 2012.
Clare discovers the freedom that Victorian public school girls found on the sports field.
Published on Monday, 6th February 2012.
Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.
Published on Friday, 3rd February 2012.
Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2012.
Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.
Published on Wednesday, 1st February 2012.
Unlike the French, was it our bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution?
Published on Tuesday, 31st January 2012.
Claire visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics.
Published on Monday, 30th January 2012.
