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The State of Play
30/30Clare Balding explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.
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Globalisation
29/30Clare Balding explores the way television has changed our relationship with sport forever.
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Rugby's Big Bang
28/30Clare Balding explores the demise of the amateurism in rugby union.
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Golden Girls
27/30Clare Balding explains how the 1960s saw women athletes finally take centre stage.
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Sport for All
26/30Clare Balding asks why and when the British government got involved in sport.
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Beating Us at Our Own Game
25/30Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football.
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The Gentleman Amateur
24/30Clare Balding on the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional.
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Driving Innovation
23/30Clare Balding is at Silverstone to explore how Britain led the way in motor racing.
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Broadcasting to the Nation
22/30Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever.
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War Games
21/30Clare Balding explores the vital role sport has played during both world wars.
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Ireland, North of the Border
20/30Clare is in Belfast to explore the impact that the Troubles had on sport in the region.
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Ireland, Politics on the Pitch
19/30Clare Balding is at Croke Park in Dublin to discover how Ireland developed its own sports.
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Welsh Rugby and Its National Heroes
18/30Clare Balding explores the role rugby has played in shaping Welsh national identity.
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Anyone But England
17/30Clare Balding explores the role football has played in shaping Scottish national identity.
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Cricket and the English Hero
16/30Clare investigates the role our sporting heroes play in shaping national identity.
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A Bit of a Flutter
15/30Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport.
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Women Between the Wars
14/30Clare Balding discovers how working women were finally given their sporting chance.
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Fighting Back
13/30Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.
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Tennis and Golf in Suburbia
12/30Clare Balding discovers how tennis and golf clubs were borne of Victorian middle classes.
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Rugby's Great Split
11/30Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.
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Exporting Football
10/30Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world.
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The Dawn of Professional Football
9/30Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business
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The Formal Empire
8/30Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together
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The Corinthian Ideal
7/30Clare Balding explores the founding of the Football Association in 1863.
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Playing Like Ladies
6/30Clare discovers the freedom that Victorian public school girls found on the sports field.
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The Making of Men
5/30Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.
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The Unsporting Side of Sport
4/30Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.
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The Bare Fists of Boxing
3/30Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.
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A Level Playing Field
2/30Unlike the French, was it our bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution?
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The Rise of Olympism
1/30Claire visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics.





























