Sports Life Stories | |
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Created by | ITV Sport |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 Minutes |
Production company | ITV Sport |
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Original network | ITV4 |
Original release | 23 October 2012 – present |
Sports Life Stories is an ITV Sport documentary series shown on ITV4 and ITV. Each episode is devoted to one sporting great and lets them tell their life story alongside contributions from friends and family as well as sporting archive. The first episode told the story of boxer Barry McGuigan and aired in October 2012 on ITV4. Reporters on the series have included Gabriel Clarke, Ned Boulting, Adam Darke and Leon Mann.
# | Index | Guest | First TX | Directed by |
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1 | 1 | Barry McGuigan | 23 October 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
2 | 2 | Gareth Thomas | 30 October 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
3 | 3 | Ronnie O'Sullivan [1] | 6 November 2012 | Lewis Hurt |
4 | 4 | Dame Kelly Holmes | 13 November 2012 | Jason Bernard |
5 | 5 | Lawrence Dallaglio | 20 November 2012 | Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
6 | 6 | Amir Khan | 27 November 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Neil Cox |
7 | 7 | Fabrice Muamba [2] | 4 December 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Lewis Hurt |
8 | 8 | Brian Lara | 11 December 2012 | Jason Bernard |
# | Index | Guest | First TX | Directed by |
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9 | 1 | James Cracknell [3] | 22 October 2013 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
10 | 2 | David Weir [4] | 29 October 2013 | James Williams |
11 | 3 | Jermain Defoe | 5 November 2013 [5] | Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
12 | 4 | Nicola Adams | 12 November 2013 | Jay Gill |
13 | 5 | Jimmy White | 26 November 2013 | Lewis Hurt |
14 | 6 | Eric Bristow | 3 December 2013 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
15 | 7 | Didier Drogba | 10 December 2013 | Daniel Hart |
16 | 8 | Chris Eubank | 17 December 2013 | Gabriel Clarke Guney Gok |
# | Index | Guest | First TX | Directed by |
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17 | 1 | Peter Shilton [6] | 17 February 2015 | Lewis Hurt |
18 | 2 | Chris Froome | 24 February 2015 | Ned Boulting Andrew Hill |
19 | 3 | Paula Radcliffe | 3 March 2015 | Luke Mellows |
20 | 4 | Andy Cole [7] | 10 March 2015 | Shurwin Beckford & Laurence Koe |
21 | 5 | Linford Christie | 24 March 2015 | Adam Maynard |
22 | 6 | John Barnes [8] | 31 March 2015 | Gabriel Clarke Jay Gill |
23 | 7 | Jason Robinson | 7 April 2015 | Joe Blake-Turner |
24 | 8 | Carl Froch | 14 April 2015 | Martyn Reardon |
Sports Life Stories has been described as a 'first-class interview series' by broadcaster Des Lynam [9] and as 'the best sports documentary series on television' by TV critic Ian Hyland. [10] Sports Life Stories was awarded Television Programme of the Year 2013 at the Sports Journalists' Association Awards on 24 March 2014. [11]
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