Sports Life Stories

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Sports Life Stories
Created by ITV Sport
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series3
No. of episodes24
Production
Running time60 Minutes
Production company ITV Sport
Release
Original network ITV4
Original release23 October 2012 (2012-10-23) 
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.

Contents

Episode guide

Series 1

# Index Guest First TX Directed by
11 Barry McGuigan 23 October 2012 (2012-10-23) Gabriel Clarke
Tim Mackenzie-Smith
22 Gareth Thomas 30 October 2012 (2012-10-30) Gabriel Clarke
Tim Mackenzie-Smith
33 Ronnie O'Sullivan [1] 6 November 2012 (2012-11-06)Lewis Hurt
44 Dame Kelly Holmes 13 November 2012 (2012-11-13)Jason Bernard
55 Lawrence Dallaglio 20 November 2012 (2012-11-20)Tim Mackenzie-Smith
66 Amir Khan 27 November 2012 (2012-11-27) Gabriel Clarke
Neil Cox
77 Fabrice Muamba [2] 4 December 2012 (2012-12-04) Gabriel Clarke
Lewis Hurt
88 Brian Lara 11 December 2012 (2012-12-11)Jason Bernard

Series 2

# Index Guest First TX Directed by
91 James Cracknell [3] 22 October 2013 (2013-10-22) Gabriel Clarke
Tim Mackenzie-Smith
102 David Weir [4] 29 October 2013 (2013-10-29)James Williams
113 Jermain Defoe 5 November 2013 (2013-11-05) [5] Tim Mackenzie-Smith
124 Nicola Adams 12 November 2013 (2013-11-12)Jay Gill
135 Jimmy White 26 November 2013 (2013-11-26)Lewis Hurt
146 Eric Bristow 3 December 2013 (2013-12-03) Gabriel Clarke
Tim Mackenzie-Smith
157 Didier Drogba 10 December 2013 (2013-12-10)Daniel Hart
168 Chris Eubank 17 December 2013 (2013-12-17) Gabriel Clarke
Guney Gok

Series 3

# Index Guest First TX Directed by
171 Peter Shilton [6] 17 February 2015 (2015-02-17)Lewis Hurt
182 Chris Froome 24 February 2015 (2015-02-24) Ned Boulting
Andrew Hill
193 Paula Radcliffe 3 March 2015 (2015-03-03)Luke Mellows
204 Andy Cole [7] 10 March 2015 (2015-03-10)Shurwin Beckford & Laurence Koe
215 Linford Christie 24 March 2015 (2015-03-24)Adam Maynard
226 John Barnes [8] 31 March 2015 (2015-03-31) Gabriel Clarke
Jay Gill
237 Jason Robinson 7 April 2015 (2015-04-07)Joe Blake-Turner
248 Carl Froch 14 April 2015 (2015-04-14)Martyn Reardon

Critical success

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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