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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-05-04

  Jake Peacock: Entertaining and inspiring through Muay Thai

Caroline Barker speaks to Jake Peacock on how he wants to entertain and inspire the world through his achievements in the Muay Thai ring. Peacock, who was born with one arm shorter than the other, was bullied at school and still receives negative messa...
  BBC World Service author
2024-04-27

  “I am good enough, I am strong enough”

***This episode contains discussions and references to suicide. If you are suffering distress or despair and need support, you could speak to a health professional, or an organisation that offers support. Details of help available in many countries can...
  BBC World Service author
2024-04-20

  'It's a laugh in the face of adversity'

***This episode contains discussions and references to extreme violence, sexual violence and domestic abuse. If you are suffering distress or despair and need support, you could speak to a health professional, or an organisation that offers support. De...
  BBC World Service author
2024-04-13

  Tottenham, YouTube and being authentic

Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Bára Votíková tells Sportshour's Caroline Barker about how she balances her football career alongside being one of the Czech Republic's best known and most followed content creators. She tells us about using her social medi...
  BBC World Service author
2024-04-06

  Returning from the depths of despair

Please note: This episode contains discussions and references to mental health and drug abuse. If you are suffering distress or despair and need support, you could speak to a health professional, or an organisation that offers support. Details of help ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-03-30

  I want to run to the moon!

In March 2024 Camille Heron cemented her place as the greatest Ultra Marathon runner of all time. She broke the six day world best, clocking an astonishing 560 miles. That's further than running from New York to Washington and back in 6 days, roughly t...
  BBC World Service author
2024-03-23

  "I was told to stop playing immediately"

Rikke Sevecke was living the dream! She'd fought the odds to make it into professional football despite all the barriers in her way. She'd played in England for Everton and represented her country, Denmark at the World Cup, and had just signed for one ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-03-22

  Introducing… 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 Wyoming to play for its Cowboys American football team. It was a predo...
  BBC World Service author
2024-03-21

  "I was told to stop playing immediately"

Rikke Sevecke was living the dream! She'd fought the odds to make it into professional football despite all the barriers in her way. She'd played in England for Everton and represented her country, Denmark at the World Cup, and had just signed for one ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-03-16

  The photo that changed my life

Racing Louisville FC defender Carson Pickett was born without part of her left arm and Pickett went viral in 2019 after she was pictured giving an arm-bump with a young fan who was also missing part of his left arm. In 2022, Carson Pickett became the f...
  BBC World Service author