Sporting Witness Episodes Available now
The yachting rescue that gripped the world
Pete Goss’s heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race
Joey Dunlop - Northern Ireland's motorsport hero
The motorbike world champion whose high-speed triumphs united a divided country
Stop the Springboks
How campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK
Learie Constantine - West Indies cricket pioneer
How the West Indian all-rounder took England by storm in the 1920s and 30s.
Maradona and the "Hand of God" goal
Ex-England striker Gary Lineker on Maradona's legendary World Cup quarter-final in 1986
Judit Polgar - the chess champion who defied stereotypes
How the chess prodigy overcame sexism in her sport and defeated the all-time greats.
The 'Blind Maradona'
The story of Silvio Velo, the captain of Argentina's world-beating blind football team
India's Queen of the Oceans
How Bula Choudhury was the first woman to swim straits of the world's seven seas.
Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian
The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.
Viv Anderson - first black England footballer
In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.
