Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,17 Nov 2015,28 mins

Should doping in sport be criminalised?

The Law Show

Available for over a year

Lord Moynihan, an Olympic medallist and a former Minister of Sport, has called for doping in sport to be made a criminal offence. His call came in reaction to the allegations made in an independent report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Association that the London Olympics had been sabotaged by systemic doping by Russia. Lord Moynihan has long been known to favour tough measures against drug cheats - and similar criminal offences exist in Australia, Italy and France. But how workable would legislation be? And it would it act as a deterrent? We ask about the legal repercussions of the Paris attacks. And, the migrant crisis reaches Cyprus. But could those migrants now come to Britain?

Programme Website
More episodes