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Clare explores how sport was reaching out through the airwaves to a whole new audience.

Clare explores how sport was reaching out through the airwaves to a whole new audience. It was increasing in popularity, growing up and leaving home.

The omnibus edition of this weeks Sport and the British with Clare Balding. 
Sport was reaching out through the airwaves to a whole new audience. It was increasing in popularity, growing up and leaving home. In some cases, this meant progress - innovation in motor sport or egalitarianism in cricket but in others, like football, it meant a painful loss of control to FIFA. 
Technical Presentation: John Benton
Producer: Lucy Lunt
Executive Producer: Ian Bent.

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Clare Balding charts how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport

Clare Balding presents a series charting how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport

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