Explore our series of Sporting Heritage podcasts recorded as part of our projects, annual conference or National Sporting Heritage Day activity. Keep up to date with our latest episodes by following our SoundCloud channel.
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08/02/2024
In these podcast episodes and accounts, we discuss the incredible story, and celebrated portrait of Rose Reilly MBE, the former footballer for both Italy and Scotland. And we consider the place of this portrait among the wider representations of sport in the art collections held by the National Galleries of Scotland.
Find out more 29/09/2023
In this episode Amina Abu-Shahba from Swansea University and writer David Brayley discuss some of the activities taking place in Swansea as part of a year-long project celebrating the city's sporting heritage.
Find out more 18/04/2023
In this episode - recorded as part of the Sporting Heritage Cymru activity funded by Welsh Government - John Carrier discusses how a chance visit to watch Wrexham Ladies FC set him on a journey to research the rich history of women's football in Wales.
Find out more 08/06/2022
In this episode, Rhian Lilley, Director of Development at Rounders England, and Derek Peaple, education lead at Sporting Heritage, explain how they collaborated on educational resources that promote the heritage, accessibility and values of rounders.
Find out more 01/02/2022
As we celebrated the Art of Sporting Heritage during February 2022, we had the great pleasure of hearing from artist, Liam Stokes-Massey aka Pencil Craftsman.
Find out more 12/01/2022
In this episode, Hedley Featherstone from the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) provides a flavour of the role played by women in civil service sports participation, excellence, administration and governance since its founding in November 1921
Find out more 16/12/2021
In this episode as part of the Ignored Heritage project, project lead Kristopher Mckie is joined by: Humayun Islam, CEO of the BEAP Community Partnership and founder of Bangla Bantams, and Dr Dan Kilvington, Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Leeds Beckett University.
Find out more 17/11/2021
Along with an introduction to the sport from Boccia Uk, we talk to players Scott McCowan, Stephen McGuire and Claire Taggart as they prepare for the World Boccia 2021 European Championship in Seville, the first international Boccia competition since the Tokyo Paralympic Games
Find out more 12/10/2021
In this episode, recorded as part of the Ignored Heritage pilot project, we reflect on the film 'Millwall Black and White', with project lead, Kristopher Mckie, producer, Ole Jensen, and one of the stars of and contributors to the film, Ron Bell.
Find out more 24/09/2021
This episode takes a look at how some of the National Governing Bodies of Sport are celebrating National Sporting Heritage Day on September 30th (#NSHD2021).
Find out more 23/09/2021
In this episode members of the strategic panel for Wales' Sporting Heritage - Sioned Hughes (Museums Wales), Rob Cole (Welsh Sports Hall of Fame), Tom Sharp (Welsh Sports Association) - reflect on the process, and discuss how important sport is to Welsh identity and culture.
Find out more 17/09/2021
In this first episode of the Ignored Heritage pilot project Kristopher Mckie introduces filmmaker Sav Kyriacou who, through Ranjit Sandhu from Slough Wrestling Club has been helping older members of the Panjabi community share the traditions of Panjabi wrestling.
Find out more 21/07/2021
In this podcast, Julia Lee from the 'Disability and Women’s Sports’ project team, is joined by several members of our Sporting Heritage Champions Network...representing Judo, Stoolball, Keep-fit and Netball.
Find out more 14/07/2021
To help launch this year's National Sporting Heritage Day activities we caught up with former World and Commonwealth squash champion, Nick Matthew and his father, Hedley to discuss how prominent sport was in the Matthew family.
Find out more 23/06/2021
Squadron Leader, Damian Clayton MBE joins our podcaster-in-residence, Russell Todd to explain how he successfully established rugby league as an officially recognised sport within the Royal Air Force.
Find out more 17/12/2020
In this podcast, Russell Todd chats with Julia Lee, who is not only a member of the 'Disability and Women's Sports' project scoping team, but since the late 1980s has been a pioneer for women's involvement in rugby league.
Find out more 15/10/2020
Dame Sarah Storey DBE joins the podcast to discuss her own sporting heritage and considers the importance of celebrating the achievements and all too often hidden histories of disability and women’s sport’s.
Find out more 29/09/2020
We discuss the role and value of sporting heritage to the rowing community and wider sporting family. Focusing on the relationship between Frances Houghton MBE OLY and the River and Rowing Museum
Find out more 22/09/2020
Earlier this year Sporting Heritage CIC launched it’s ‘Sporting Heritage of Disability and Women’s Sport’ project supported by Sport England. Sporting ...
Find out more 17/06/2020
In this podcast Russell Todd, Sporting Heritage CIC’s podcaster-in-residence, chats to his next door neighbour in Cardiff, Colin Morgan, about ...
Find out more 03/06/2020
Sporting Heritage CIC has recently launched it’s Disability and Women’s Sports project, funded by Sport England. It aims to help ...
Find out more 01/11/2019
Sporting Heritage's podcaster-in-residence, Russell Todd caught up with several of the 2019 delegates in Cardiff to produce the following podcast episodes.
Find out more 04/03/2020
My name is Russell Todd, Sporting Heritage CIC’s podcaster-in-residence. If you have been at any of the Sporting Heritage summits ...
Find out more 28/10/2019
’90 Minutes of Freedom’ is a brand new book by criminal justice researcher Jamie Grundy, who spent the whole 2018-19 ...
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