Ep. 541 - Matthew Lorenzo - Sports presenter and film maker for BBC, Sky, ITV, GMTV and Channel 4

My Time Capsule

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Lorenzo was one of the original presenters on Sky Sports, he went on to front major sporting events for ITV, Channel 4, BBC Sport, GMTV TalkSPORT, covering everything from Premier League and Champions League football to Formula 1 and The World Cup. As a producer and director, Matthew has created a series of acclaimed sports documentaries, including Bobby — the definitive film on England’s World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore — Hurst The First And Only, Brighton Stand or Fall, Finding Jack Charlton and The United Way with Eric Cantona. His latest documentary, “King of Lies,” will be released as a Sky Original on 16th November 2025. Matthew's podcast For Luck’s Sake, is available now wherever you get your pods .

Matthew Lorenzo is our guest in episode 541 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

Matthew's podcast For Luck’s Sake is available here - https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/for-lucks-sake

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens. And my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule,
0:21.9	four things they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget.
0:25.5	And my guest in this episode is the journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker Matthew Lorenzo.
0:31.9	Matthew has worked for The Guardian and The Times and Sunday Times,
0:35.8	and has presented a variety of programs for the BBC's Sky, ITV, GMTV and Channel 4.
0:42.7	He remains the youngest presenter ever to host a Networked World Cup.
0:46.7	He produced the critically acclaimed feature documentary on English footballer Bobby Moore, Bobby, in 2016, and was executive producer on Bobby Robson,
0:56.9	The Man and the Manager, and he produced The United Way with Eric Cantanar, which secured a global
1:02.6	release in May 2021 and was nominated for Sports Documentary of the Year. Matthew's film,
1:08.8	Hearst the First and Only, premiered on Sky in November 2022.
1:13.4	It gained four-star reviews from the Sunday Times, The Telegraph, the Mail, and was described
1:18.1	by the Mirror as a stunning documentary, searingly powerful. His film on Brighton and Hove Albion's
1:24.1	25-year rise from the verge of extinction to the Premier League, stand or fall,
1:29.7	was released in summer 2025. His latest documentary, King of Lies, will be released as a
1:35.7	Sky original very, very soon, in fact within the next few days, if you're listening to this
1:40.8	when it first goes out. Matt spends his spare time waiting for West Ham to
1:44.8	win the Champions League. So as you can imagine, he's got quite a lot of spare time, which fortunately
1:50.0	means he's got time to record a podcast with me. So here is Matthew Lorenzo. I mean, you are
1:59.6	one of the faces that is so constant as far as television is concerned.
2:04.2	And now you've moved into, well, you're a filmmaker.
2:07.8	Yeah, I love that. I'm a filmmaker. You say that at a party. I make documentaries.
2:11.8	And you don't want to say, well, they're mostly about football. But they do that. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with mostly about football,
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