Britain's long love affair with sport

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Britons may not always be the best at playing sports. But, as David Horspool tells Spencer Mizen, when it comes to inventing, codifying and becoming utterly obsessed by them, they are bona fide world beaters. From the brutality of medieval jousts to the mega-bucks of the Premier League, David reveals how sport has embedded itself in the fabric of British life over the centuries. (Ad) David Horspool is the author of // More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain // (John Murray Press, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Than-Game-History-Britain/dp/1529363276/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.4	Which Prince forged his reputation in the medieval till yard? How did industrialisation turbo-charge the rise of football? And why did rugby union become a totem of Welsh national identity? These are just some of the questions considered by David Horsball in his latest book, More Than
1:12.3	a Game, A History of How Sport Made Britain.
1:16.1	Here in conversation with Spencer Mizzin, David explores our nation's long love affair
1:21.3	with sport, from the brutality of medieval jousts to the megabucks of the Premier League.
1:27.7	Hi David, thank you for joining us today.
1:31.4	Your new book charts Britain's long love affair with sport via the evolution of games that remain hugely popular today, such as horse racing, tennis, golf, boxing, cricket, football,
1:48.0	and rugby union. However, for your first chapter, you go all the way back to the medieval
1:55.1	tournament, which were enormous set piece events that saw knights and men at arms engaged in jousting and
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