Athletes' stories told properly
Alasdair Hooper hosts the first of our six Mental Health Awareness Week specials. On this opening episode we hear from footballer Ruth Fox who has very recently become an inspirational … Continue Reading Mental Health Awareness Special: Ruth Fox
Alasdair Hooper hosts a judo special with 2014 Commonwealth Champion and World bronze medalist Nekoda Smythe-Davis. The 25-year-old tells the podcast about how she got into the sport and how … Continue Reading Judo Special: Nekoda Smythe-Davis
Alasdair Hooper hosts a judo special with 2014 Commonwealth Champion Natalie Powell. In her one-on-one interview on the podcast Natalie takes us through her journey in judo as well … Continue Reading Judo Special: Natalie Powell
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 22 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: Our highlights and talking points from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games … Continue Reading Episode 22: Sally Conway
Alasdair Hooper hosts a Commonwealth Games Special with Team England boxer Cheavon Clarke. Gold Coast 2018 will be Cheavon’s second Commonwealth Games after he represented Jamaica at Glasgow 2014. … Continue Reading Commonwealth Games Special: Cheavon Clarke
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 21 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: England’s dismal display against New Zealand in their first test (2:24) Manchester … Continue Reading Episode 21: Giselle Ansley
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 20 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: The new UK Athlete Classification Code (4:47) What have we learnt from … Continue Reading Episode 20: Para sport classification with Keith Antoine
Will Moulton hosts a Winter Paralympics Special with British skier and medal hope Millie Knight. PyeongChang will be Millie’s second Paralympic Games after she initially represented Britain in Sochi … Continue Reading Winter Paralympics Special: Millie Knight
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton are joined by freelance journalist Alys Bowen to bring you episode 19 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: The British highlights at … Continue Reading Episode 19: Chris Lloyd
Alasdair Hooper hosts the eighth SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. In this episode we are joined by British figure skating stars Penny … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland
Will Moulton hosts the seventh SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode we are joined by skeleton racer Laura Deas as … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Laura Deas
Alasdair Hooper hosts the sixth SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode Alasdair is joined by the Associate Senior Writer of … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: The consequences of the NHL’s no-show with Matt Larkin
Alasdair Hooper hosts the fifth SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode alpine skier Charlie Guest chats about her journey to … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Charlie Guest
Alasdair Hooper hosts the fourth SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode short track speed skater Charlotte Gilmartin returns to the … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Charlotte Gilmartin
Alasdair Hooper hosts the second SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode we are joined by British biathlete Amanda Lightfoot who … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Amanda Lightfoot
Alasdair Hooper hosts the first SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode we are joined by Britain’s number one ski cross … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Emily Sarsfield