Sports, Games, Recreation

Last Edited: 11-Mar-2012 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date

Title

Cast

Parameters
2004
R7:
06-Jan-2011

Grasshead Racers
Murray Walker explores lawnmower racing

Murray Walker
produced by Julian May

 27:36, 25890, S
06-Jan-2010
13-Jan-2010
20-Jan-2010

More Than A Game

  1. The Fight
  2. Blood in the Water
  3. The Football War
 Anthony King
Produced by Chris Bond		 14:02, 13173, S
13:55, 13058, S
13:37, 12780, S
13-May-2010

Why Go? -- The game of Go

Chris Ledgard
 

 27:45, 26025, S
24-May-2010

Football Fights Back

Hardeep Singh Kohli
Producer: Richard Bannerman

 27:48, 26077, S
14-Jun-2010

UK Cycling's Biggest Challenge Yet

 Jim White
produced by Kevin Mosley		 27:57, 26214, S
02-Jul-2010 to
16-Jul-2010

12-Aug-2011 to
26-Aug-2011

Touchline Tales

  1. An Uproar of Butterflies
  2. A Thunder of Hooves, A Babble of Bookies
  3. New Balls Please
  4. A Game of Two Halves
  5. Hop, Step and Jump
  6. More Fruitcake?

Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew
Producer:Paul Kobrak

Producer Alice Lloyd, Paul Kobrak

 27:50, 26105, S
27:13, 25526, S
27:41, 25967, S

27:45, 25970, S
27:42, 25929, S
27:49, 26027, S
23-Jul-2010

Cache in Pocket -- geocaching; a technological treasure hunt

Ian Peacock
produced by Sara Langan

 27:57, 26217, S
04-Sep-2010

Stock Car Sewell

Brian Sewell
Producer: Caroline Hughes

27:45, 26020, S
27-Sep-2010 to
01-Oct-2010

Run up to the Ryder Cup

 Nick Savini
produced by Catherine Chadwick		 13:40, 12825, S
13:52, 13014, S
13:50, 12973, S
13:46, 12916, S
13:47, 12924, S
12-Oct-2010

The Gizmo Games

Chris Ledgard
Producer: Ali Serle

17:08, 16076, S
missing start
29-Oct-2010

Inside the Cage -- cage fighting

Felicity Finch, Mike Wood
Producer: Jane Ray

 27:51, 26120, S
07-Dec-2010

A Level Playing Field for the Paralympics

Peter White
Producer: Emma Kingsley

 36:45. 34464, S
22-Dec-2010

Australian Wanted in Woodhall Spa

Chris Ledgard
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

 27:27, 25742, S
31-Jan-2011

Corporate Karma -- yoga becomes more commercial

Jolyon Jenkins

27:41, 25969, S
20-May-2011

Roller Girls

Produced by Eleanor McDowall

 27:42, 25977, S
29-May-2011

FIFA: Football, Power and Politics

David Goldblatt
Producer: Mark Burman

 28:00, 26264, S
30-May-2011

Boy Racers

Aasmah Mir
Producer: Tamsin Barber

 27:45, 26017, S
18-Jun-2011

Royal Racers and Fascinators

Hardeep Singh Kohli
Producer: Richard Bannerman

 27:09, 25455, S
14-Jul-2011

The Sinha Test

Paul Sinha
Ed Morrish

 28:01, 32838, S
06-Aug-2011

Ladies of the Links

Rhona Cameron
Producer: Kevin Dawson

 27:34, 25797, S
10-Aug-2011

The Sex Test -- eligibility to compete in female competitions

Chris Ledgard
Produced by John Byrne

 27:42, 25921, S
12-Oct-2011

Hook, Line and Singer

Cerys Matthews
Produced by Sarah Cuddon

27:38, 25865, S
29-Oct-2011

Roger's Rabbits

Roger Law
produced by Mark Richards

 27:33, 25779, S
27-Jan-2012

No Brakes, No Fear

Michael Lee
Producer: Alan Hall

 27:34, 25792, S
30-Jan-2012 to

Sport and the British

  1. The Rise of Olympism
  2. A Level Playing Field
  3. The Bare Fists of Boxing
  4. The Unsporting Side of Sport
  5. The Making of Men
    omnibus 1
  6. Playing Like Ladies
  7. The Corinthian Ideal
  8. The Formal Empire
  9. Dawn of Professional Football
  10. Exporting Football
    omnibus 2
  11. Rugby's Great Split
  12. Tennis and Golf in Suburbia
  13. Fighting Back
  14. Women Between the Wars
  15. A Bit of a Flutter
    omnibus 3
  16. Cricket and the English Hero
  17. Anyone but England
  18. Welsh Rugby and its National Heroes
  19. Ireland, Politics on the Pitch
  20. Ireland, North of the Border
    omnibus 4
  21. War Games
  22. Broadcasting to the Nation
  23. Driving Innovation
  24. The Gentleman Amateur
  25. Beating Us at Our Own Game
    omnibus 5
  26. Sport for All
  27. Golden Girls
  28. Rugby's Big Bang
  29. Globalisation
  30. The State of Play
    omnibus 6

Clare Balding
reader is Stuart McLoughlin
Producer: Lucy Lunt, Sara Conkey, Garth Brameld

 

13:48, 12918, S
13:30, 12635, S
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13:40, 12800, S
13:50, 12953, S
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10:50, 10147, S
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13:42, 12830, S
12:47, 11978, S
56:35, 52942, S
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13:34, 12701, S
13:45, 12880, S
13:38, 12765, S
12:09, 11376, S
56:22, 52739, S
12:31, 11718, S
13:49, 12934, S
12:02, 11266, S
12:34, 11775, S
12:27, 11658, S
56:42, 53108, S
12:09, 11382, S
12:07, 11353, S
12:54, 12088, S
13:37, 12760, S
13:34, 12709, S
56:44, 53085, S
05-Mar-2012

Fever Pitched: Twenty Years On

Nick Hornby, John Wilson
Produced by Faith Lawrence

 27:20, 25574, S