Sport and the British written by BBC Sports Team performed by Clare Balding on CD (Unabridged)

Clare Balding presents the landmark BBC Radio 4 series which charts how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport.

Apart from the English language itself, the invention of modern sport has been our major cultural legacy to the rest of the world.

In the edited version of this 30-part narrative history series, with the help of the academic team from the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Clare looks at the unique and vital role sport has played, and continues to play, in our national life.

From the birth of broadcasting, to the way television has changed our relationship with sport, this is a historic series about our national passion and how the British took sport to the world.