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A Level Playing Field

Unlike the French, was it our bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution?

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The Bare Fists of Boxing

Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.

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The Unsporting Side of Sport

Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.

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The Making of Men

Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.

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Playing Like Ladies

Clare discovers the freedom that Victorian public school girls found on the sports field.

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The Corinthian Ideal

Clare Balding explores the founding of the Football Association in 1863.

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The Formal Empire

Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together

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The Dawn of Professional Football

Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business

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Exporting Football

Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world.

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Rugby's Great Split

Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.

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Tennis and Golf in Suburbia

Clare Balding discovers how tennis and golf clubs were borne of Victorian middle classes.

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Fighting Back

Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.

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Women Between the Wars

Clare Balding discovers how working women were finally given their sporting chance.

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A Bit of a Flutter

Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport.

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Cricket and the English Hero

Clare investigates the role our sporting heroes play in shaping national identity.

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Anyone But England

Clare Balding explores the role football has played in shaping Scottish national identity.

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Welsh Rugby and Its National Heroes

Clare Balding explores the role rugby has played in shaping Welsh national identity.

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Ireland, Politics on the Pitch

Clare Balding is at Croke Park in Dublin to discover how Ireland developed its own sports.

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Ireland, North of the Border

Clare is in Belfast to explore the impact that the Troubles had on sport in the region.

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War Games

Clare Balding explores the vital role sport has played during both world wars.

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Broadcasting to the Nation

Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever.

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Driving Innovation

Clare Balding is at Silverstone to explore how Britain led the way in motor racing.

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The Gentleman Amateur

Clare Balding on the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional.

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Beating Us at Our Own Game

Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football.

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Sport for All

Clare Balding asks why and when the British government got involved in sport.

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Golden Girls

Clare Balding explains how the 1960s saw women athletes finally take centre stage.

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Rugby's Big Bang

Clare Balding explores the demise of the amateurism in rugby union.

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Globalisation

Clare Balding explores the way television has changed our relationship with sport forever.

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The State of Play

Clare Balding explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.

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