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England’s sporting obsession
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Dec 4, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Robert Colls, author of This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960, discusses the critical role that our love of sport has played in English civil society over the past two centuries – from 19th-century prize fighters to the magic of Bobby Charlton.
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Dec 4, 2020
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