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Radio 4,14 Aug 2008,28 mins

Fair Play?

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Historian Richard Weight asks why many nations with far fewer resources than Britain frequently perform much better at sports. Does the country that invented so many sports take them too seriously or not seriously enough, and does it really matter?

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