Tennis' Darkest Hour: 3. Print It Big
After three years, women’s tennis had a new number one. Monica Seles was riding high on a wave of success; out of the last nine Grand Slams, she had played eight finals, and won seven of them. But fro...
28 Sep 37min
Tennis' Darkest Hour: 2. There’s Always A Contender
Steffi Graf had been world number one for 3 years; it seemed like nobody could challenge her supremacy. But then along came a teenage girl from Yugoslavia, whose aggressive style - that came with grun...
21 Sep 45min
Tennis' Darkest Hour: 1. The Little Peanut
On April 30, 1993, one moment of madness changed the course of tennis history, and confronted the world of sport with an uncomfortable reality - how safe were its biggest stars? Teenage phenomenon, Mo...
14 Sep 41min
Shadows on the Pitch: 7. “Do I Not Like That?”
Former referees and a FIFA insider: can the USA ‘94 conspiracy theory floated by the Iraqi Football Federation over 30 years ago finally be explained? James travels to Cologne to retrace the steps of ...
28 Aug 42min
Shadows on the Pitch: 6. A Dirty Game?
Patronage and power: lessons from an Italian footballing scandal. From the pitch of the San Siro to a pre-dawn FBI raid of a luxury hotel in Geneva, James gathers a new understanding of the mechanics ...
21 Aug 32min
Shadows on the Pitch: 5. All the Presidents Men
As the FIFA draw takes place in Washington DC and the great and the good of the footballing world convene in the US capital, spies come out of the woodwork to speak to James. Former CIA operatives and...
14 Aug 34min
Shadows on the Pitch: 4. The Agony of Doha
World Cup qualifiers return to Doha in 2025, and so does football conspiracy, but can James see through the controversy to get to the bottom of what happened on similar pitches over thirty years ago?P...
7 Aug 39min
