Sporting Witness
The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00j2pn5
- Description
- The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-21 02:03
- last episode published
- 2024-04-20 09:00
- publication frequency
- 8.36 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 557
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-04-20 | Alex Higgins was the two-times World Snooker champion from Northern Ireland whose speedy style of play helped turn the game into a must-watch sport. But, away from the table, he was a wild boy – whose gambling, drinking and womanising eventually led to... |
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| 2024-04-13 | It's 20 years since Mianne Bagger became the first transgender athlete to play in pro golf tournament. The Danish golfer made history by competing at the 2004 Women’s Australian Open. It was a landmark moment for trans sport and made headlines around t... |
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| 2024-04-06 | In 2007, 52-year-old Slovenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel became the first person to swim the entire length of the Amazon River. It took him 66 days to complete and, over the course of his journey, Strel faced threats such as pirates, sharks, and d... |
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| 2024-04-05 | A bonus episode from the Amazing Sport Stories podcast – The Black 14. Sport, racism and protests are about to change the lives of “the Black 14” American footballers. It’s 1969 in the United States. They’ve arrived on scholarships at the University of... |
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| 2024-03-30 | Roberto Duran and Dave Radford were from different worlds.Roberto, a champion boxer considered one of the greatest to ever step into the ring. Dave, a part-time plasterer in the North of England, boxing in leisure centres and social clubs.But in 1997, ... |
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| 2024-03-23 | In 1980, Roland Butcher became the first black cricketer to represent England. It was in a one day match against Australia.Born in Barbados, his first tour was against his home region of the West Indies. He’s been speaking to Claire Bowes about his exp... |
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| 2024-03-16 | The badminton champion Rajeev Bagga grew up in India, winning deaf and hearing competitions in his home country and abroad. He has won 14 gold medals at the Deaflympics, which is the second oldest multi-sport and cultural festival in the world after th... |
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| 2024-03-09 | In the 1976 Formula One motor racing season, South African driver Jody Scheckter became the first and only person to ever win a race in a six-wheeled car. Competing against him in Sweden was American Mario Andretti. In this episode, both former world c... |
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| 2024-03-02 | In 1984, the women's marathon was held in the Olympic Games for the first time.But to the horror of the crowd in Los Angeles, one of the runners, Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss of Switzerland, entered the stadium in a state of virtual collapse from heat exh... |
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| 2024-02-24 | In April 2001, the small island nation of American Samoa took on Australia in the World Cup qualifiers. You could only play for the team if you held an American passport, which automatically ruled out the majority of the American Samoans, leaving them ... |
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