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Clare discovers that the freedom Victorian public school girls found on the sports field was a precursor to the political and social freedoms they would gain much later. Show more
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Clare Balding discovers that the Football Association, founded in 1863, was set up to ensure that players should be gentlemen both on and off the pitch. Show more
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Clare Balding reveals that, if trade was the driving force behind the expansion of the British Empire, sport was the glue that helped keep it together. Show more
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Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions, bigotry and witch-hunts, as a civil war in sport erupted when rugby split in two. Show more
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Clare Balding discovers that the rise of the middle class in Victorian Britain heralded the birth of suburban tennis and golf clubs. Show more
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Clare Balding investigates the role sporting heroes, like cricketers WG Grace and Jack Hobbs, play in shaping national identity. Show more
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Clare Balding visits Hampden Park in Glasgow to explore the part football has played in shaping Scotland's national identity and its changing relationship with England. Show more
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Clare Balding visits Cardiff Arms Park to explore the vital role rugby plays in shaping Welsh national identity. Show more
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Clare Balding visits Croke Park in Dublin, to discover the story behind the formation of the Gaelic Athletic Association and its founder Michael Cusack. Show more
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Clare Balding is in Belfast to explore the impact that the Troubles in Northern Ireland had on sport and its sportsmen. Show more
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Clare Balding explores the way global television has changed our relationship with sport forever. Show more
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Clare Balding, with Professors Richard Holt, Tony Collins and Mike Cronin, explores the cultural importance of sport. Show more
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Clare Balding visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birth place of the modern Olympic games. Show more
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Clare Balding charts how the British shaped sport and vice versa. Unlike the French, was it our socially bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution? Show more
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Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing for the 19th-century alpha male. With no gloves or armour, pugilism was pure, painful and deeply patriotic. Show more
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Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing. Clare Balding continues her exploration sport in Britain. Show more
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Clare Balding visits Rugby School to learn why the role sport played turned its pupils into men fit to run the empire. Show more
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Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities. Show more
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Clare Balding discovers how working women finally got their sporting chance at the turn of the twentieth century. Show more
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Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport. Show more
