Sporting Witness Episodes Available now

The Curse of the Bambino
How a misfield in the 1986 World Series convinced Boston Red Sox fans they were cursed.

British Lions in Apartheid South Africa
In 1974 the British Lions made a famous and controversial rugby tour of South Africa.

India's Hockey Gold
In 1948 at the 'austerity' Olympics, newly independent India won gold on the hockey pitch

Ryder Cup - The War by the Shore
The bitter clash between the best golfers from the USA and Europe in 1991

Ben Johnson
The Canadian sprinter disqualified for doping at the 1988 Olympics

The Auld Enemy: Scotland v England
How Scotland's footballers triumphed over the English at Wembley in 1967

The D'Oliveira Affair
How the batsman sparked a row leading to the sporting isolation of apartheid South Africa

The First Special Olympics
How the first games for athletes with intellectual disabilities was organised in 1968

The Grateful Dead Makes Lithuanian Basketball Bronze Possible
Funded partly by the US rock band the new independent nation beat the former Soviet Union

The Creation of Ironman
How the most extreme form of triathlon was invented in Hawaii in 1978