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The Bare Fists of Boxing

Clare Balding explores the importance of boxing to the 19th-century alpha male.

• 15 mins

The Unsporting Side of Sport

Sport and gambling are inextricably linked, especially when it comes to horse racing.

• 15 mins

The Making of Men

Clare visits Rugby School to discover why it produced men fit to run the empire.

• 15 mins

Playing Like Ladies

Clare discovers the freedom that Victorian public school girls found on the sports field.

• 15 mins

The Corinthian Ideal

Clare Balding explores the founding of the Football Association in 1863.

• 15 mins

The Formal Empire

Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together

• 15 mins

The Dawn of Professional Football

Clare Balding tells the story of how football went from an amateur pastime to big business

• 15 mins

Exporting Football

Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world.

• 15 mins

Rugby's Great Split

Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.

• 15 mins

Tennis and Golf in Suburbia

Clare Balding discovers how tennis and golf clubs were borne of Victorian middle classes.

• 15 mins

Fighting Back

Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and Britain's ethnic minorities.

• 15 mins

Women Between the Wars

Clare Balding discovers how working women were finally given their sporting chance.

• 15 mins

A Bit of a Flutter

Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our relationship with sport.

• 15 mins

Cricket and the English Hero

Clare investigates the role our sporting heroes play in shaping national identity.

• 15 mins

Anyone But England

Clare Balding explores the role football has played in shaping Scottish national identity.

• 15 mins

Welsh Rugby and Its National Heroes

Clare Balding explores the role rugby has played in shaping Welsh national identity.

• 15 mins

Ireland, Politics on the Pitch

Clare Balding is at Croke Park in Dublin to discover how Ireland developed its own sports.

• 15 mins

Ireland, North of the Border

Clare is in Belfast to explore the impact that the Troubles had on sport in the region.

• 15 mins

War Games

Clare Balding explores the vital role sport has played during both world wars.

• 15 mins

Broadcasting to the Nation

Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting changed British sport for ever.

• 15 mins

Driving Innovation

Clare Balding is at Silverstone to explore how Britain led the way in motor racing.

• 15 mins

The Gentleman Amateur

Clare Balding on the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional.

• 15 mins

Beating Us at Our Own Game

Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful export ever - football.

• 15 mins

Sport for All

Clare Balding asks why and when the British government got involved in sport.

• 15 mins

Golden Girls

Clare Balding explains how the 1960s saw women athletes finally take centre stage.

• 15 mins

Rugby's Big Bang

Clare Balding explores the demise of the amateurism in rugby union.

• 15 mins

Globalisation

Clare Balding explores the way television has changed our relationship with sport forever.

• 15 mins

The State of Play

Clare Balding explores the cultural importance of the great triviality that is sport.

• 15 mins