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Sport and the BritishEpisodes

  1. The State of Play

    30/30Clare Balding explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.

  2. Globalisation

    29/30Clare Balding explores the way television has changed our relationship with sport forever.

  3. Rugby's Big Bang

    28/30Clare Balding explores the demise of the amateurism in rugby union.

  4. Golden Girls

    27/30Clare Balding explains how the 1960s saw women athletes finally take centre stage.

  5. Sport for All

    26/30Clare Balding asks why and when the British government got involved in sport.

  6. Beating Us at Our Own Game

    25/30Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football.

  7. The Gentleman Amateur

    24/30Clare Balding on the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional.

  8. Driving Innovation

    23/30Clare Balding is at Silverstone to explore how Britain led the way in motor racing.

  9. Broadcasting to the Nation

    22/30Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever.

  10. War Games

    21/30Clare Balding explores the vital role sport has played during both world wars.

  11. Ireland, North of the Border

    20/30Clare is in Belfast to explore the impact that the Troubles had on sport in the region.

  12. Ireland, Politics on the Pitch

    19/30Clare Balding is at Croke Park in Dublin to discover how Ireland developed its own sports.

  13. Welsh Rugby and Its National Heroes

    18/30Clare Balding explores the role rugby has played in shaping Welsh national identity.

  14. Anyone But England

    17/30Clare Balding explores the role football has played in shaping Scottish national identity.

  15. Cricket and the English Hero

    16/30Clare investigates the role our sporting heroes play in shaping national identity.

  16. A Bit of a Flutter

    15/30Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport.

  17. Women Between the Wars

    14/30Clare Balding discovers how working women were finally given their sporting chance.

  18. Fighting Back

    13/30Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.

  19. Tennis and Golf in Suburbia

    12/30Clare Balding discovers how tennis and golf clubs were borne of Victorian middle classes.

  20. Rugby's Great Split

    11/30Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.

  21. Exporting Football

    10/30Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world.

  22. The Dawn of Professional Football

    9/30Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business

  23. The Formal Empire

    8/30Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together

  24. The Corinthian Ideal

    7/30Clare Balding explores the founding of the Football Association in 1863.

  25. Playing Like Ladies

    6/30Clare discovers the freedom that Victorian public school girls found on the sports field.

  26. The Making of Men

    5/30Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.

  27. The Unsporting Side of Sport

    4/30Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.

  28. The Bare Fists of Boxing

    3/30Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.

  29. A Level Playing Field

    2/30Unlike the French, was it our bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution?

  30. The Rise of Olympism

    1/30Claire visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics.