Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily

In the late 19th century, one sport stood above all others in terms of popularity, pedestrianism. That's right, walking.  Tens of thousands of people would come to watch the top pedestrians walk for f...

23 Apr 20231h 4min

Sport is fun, but it's a lot of effort to organise, run a whole competition, and then fix the result so you can win a lot of money through betting. The simple solution is to run your own event, or eve...

16 Apr 202343min

In 1932, with the world going through the Great Depression, Brazil had no money to send its Olympic team to Los Angeles. Then a government official had an idea—load a ship with 50,000 bags of coffee, ...

9 Apr 202331min

Jese Rodriguez was a future star in the soccer world, but things like a music career and discovering he was a father via Instagram sent things sideways. Despite a career that included stints at Real M...

2 Apr 202336min

In the final of our series on Table Tennis, we look at the use of glue to cheat in table tennis. When Hungarian player Tibor Klampár discovered volatile glues gave the rubber on bats 30 per cent more ...

26 Mar 202330min

In the early 1970s, with China and the United States locked in a Cold War struggle, it took Ping Pong to save the world. With diplomatic ties severed between Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, the US Tab...

19 Mar 202349min

The sport of table tennis or ping pong, or as it was once known, Whiff Waff, has arguably had a more significant impact on world history than any other sport. In this episode, we look at the life of I...

13 Mar 202346min

By the time Jimmy White was 13, he was skipping school and travelling around England in a black cab to play snooker and hustle adults out of their money. Turning professional, Jimmy quickly became the...

5 Mar 20231h 7min