When sport collides with true crime.
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Tennis' Darkest Hour: 6. Life Is Not A Headline
820 days after the stabbing, Monica Seles makes her return to tennis - but how can she compete with the best in the world after more than two years away from the sport? Never one t…
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Tennis' Darkest Hour: 5. Where is Monica Seles?
On paper, Monica Seles was expected to return to winning ways in just a few short months; this shocking crime would be a dark chapter that tennis would be keen to forget. So, why d…
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Tennis' Darkest Hour: 4. Your Friend from Thuringia
As police question the attacker, the strange motive for this appalling crime is revealed - sending another shockwave through the world of tennis and beyond. We learn more about the…
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Tennis' Darkest Hour: 3. Print It Big
After three years, women’s tennis had a new number one. Monica Seles was riding high on a wave of success; out of the last nine Grand Slams, she had played eight finals, and won se…
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Tennis' Darkest Hour: 2. There’s Always A Contender
Steffi Graf had been world number one for 3 years; it seemed like nobody could challenge her supremacy. But then along came a teenage girl from Yugoslavia, whose aggressive style -…
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Tennis' Darkest Hour: 1. The Little Peanut
On April 30, 1993, one moment of madness changed the course of tennis history, and confronted the world of sport with an uncomfortable reality - how safe were its biggest stars? Te…
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Tennis' Darkest Hour: Trailer
Clare Balding tells the story of how a shocking act of violence altered sporting history, and how a visionary tennis champion fought to find her way back to the life she once had
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Shadows on the Pitch: 7. “Do I Not Like That?”
Former referees and a FIFA insider: can the USA ‘94 conspiracy theory floated by the Iraqi Football Federation over 30 years ago finally be explained? James travels to Cologne to r…
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Shadows on the Pitch: 6. A Dirty Game?
Patronage and power: lessons from an Italian footballing scandal. From the pitch of the San Siro to a pre-dawn FBI raid of a luxury hotel in Geneva, James gathers a new understandi…
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Shadows on the Pitch: 5. All the Presidents Men
As the FIFA draw takes place in Washington DC and the great and the good of the footballing world convene in the US capital, spies come out of the woodwork to speak to James. Forme…
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Shadows on the Pitch: 4. The Agony of Doha
World Cup qualifiers return to Doha in 2025, and so does football conspiracy, but can James see through the controversy to get to the bottom of what happened on similar pitches ove…
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Shadows on the Pitch: 3. Spy Games
The world of spies and sports collide as James speaks to security specialists and those who lived-to-tell-the-tale about rumours of America’s shadowy past. From claims of secret ma…
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Shadows on the Pitch: 2. Son of Anarchy
A political powder-keg World Cup qualifying tournament held in Doha. American security on the line. James tries to make sense of what went down in the desert shadows.Thirty years o…
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Shadows on the Pitch: 1. No Terrorists in America
Can an ex-refree with a cryptic message help James unravel an explosive conspiracy about the build up to World Cup USA 1994? James travels to Bucharest to find out more … Presented…
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Shadows on the Pitch: Trailer
Conspiracy theories and the football World Cup seem to go hand in hand. Football writer James Montague is digging into one that refuses to fade; a story that takes us back to the f…
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Confessions of a Super Bowl Streaker: 6. The Fallout
The streak is over but the chaos is just beginning.Mark Roberts has danced naked at the centre of the Super Bowl, been tackled by an NFL linebacker, and carried off the field. What…
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Confessions of a Super Bowl Streaker: 5. Houston, We Have So Many Problems
Houston, 2004. Super Bowl XXXVIII. The biggest television event of the year — and everyone involved is chasing perfection.Inside the NFL machine, Jim Steeg is orchestrating a milit…
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Confessions of a Super Bowl Streaker: 4. The Man With the Plan
After failing in San Diego, Mark swore he’d never try the Super Bowl again. Then one unexpected email changes everything.Comedian Rich Hall presents the story of an eight-month mis…
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Confessions of a Super Bowl Streaker: 3. On the Map
Before Mark could streak the Super Bowl, both streaking and the Super Bowl had to become what they are.Streaking has a history. The Super Bowl has a history. And host Rich Hall? We…
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Confessions of a Super Bowl Streaker: 2. The Calling
Every superhero has an origin story. For Captain Cock, it begins in Hong Kong, 1993.Comedian Rich Hall takes us back to when Mark is a young bartender in the city’s chaotic nightli…