Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team: Ep 3
The final showdown. The only thing which stands between Lithuania and an Olympic medal? The Unified Team – the team representing former Soviet countries and, for Lithuanians, their former occupiers. W...
2 Juni 202537min
Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team: Ep 2
The Lithuanian men’s basketball team are making a splash at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. But they’re about to face two of their biggest challenges…The Unified Team is made up of athletes representing ...
26 Maj 202539min
Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team: Ep 1
Bill Walton tells the story of Sarunas Marciulionis’ journey from the USSR to the NBA. Along the way, there’s also a Grateful Dead concert…It’s Moscow, 1989, and Lithuanian basketball star Sarunas Mar...
19 Maj 202539min
Claressa Shields: Battles beyond boxing
Claressa Shields is a legend of boxing. By the time she turned 25, she had won two Olympic gold medals, and claimed professional world titles in three separate weight divisions. But her glory came aft...
30 Sep 202412min
Tackles and tailenders
In 2003, Namibia's Rudie van Vuuren became the first - and, to date, only - man to have played at both the cricket and rugby World Cups. His feat was made all the more impressive by the fact that he w...
23 Sep 202415min
Just win the day
On 22 March 2016, a bomb attack killed 16 people at Brussels Airport. Basketball player Sebastien Bellin was one of the survivors. He says sport, and a meal he ate the night before, helped save his li...
16 Sep 202417min
The Legend of Takhti: Ep 3
Following the unexpected and shocking death of heroic wrestler Gholamreza Takhti, Tehran is a tinderbox. Hundreds of thousands of people gather in the streets as tensions and rumours rise to a pitch. ...
9 Sep 202433min
