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Exporting Football
10/30 Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world.
The Dawn of Professional Football
9/30 Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business
The Formal Empire
8/30 Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together
The Corinthian Ideal
7/30 Clare Balding explores the founding of the Football Association in 1863.
Playing Like Ladies
6/30 Clare discovers the freedom that Victorian public school girls found on the sports field.
The Making of Men
5/30 Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.
The Unsporting Side of Sport
4/30 Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.
The Bare Fists of Boxing
3/30 Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.
A Level Playing Field
2/30 Unlike the French, was it our bonding love of cricket that prevented a revolution?
The Rise of Olympism
1/30 Claire visits Rugby School, which can claim to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics.
