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This Thing of Ours | The English Disease – Episode 6
Season 2 Episode 6
In the final episode, Sam returns to east London to confront some home truths and speaks to someone who might hold the key to understanding the English Disease…
Extraordinary sporting stories that rea…
Published on 1 year ago
The Price of Brotherhood | The English Disease – Episode 5
Season 2 Episode 5
Tensions are rising across the country until, one night in July, a single event changes everything…
Enjoyed listening to The English Disease? We want to hear from you before the season finale – whethe…
Published on 1 year ago
The Mask Eats the Face | The English Disease – Episode 4
Season 2 Episode 4
A WhatsApp group for football banter started as an escape from the real world. But it soon became a command centre for Britain’s culture war…
Extraordinary sporting stories that really matter. From St…
Published on 1 year ago
Us vs Them | The English Disease – Episode 3
Season 2 Episode 3
A young man in Sheffield attacks a rival supporter with irreversible consequences... But his story isn’t an anomaly. It’s a blueprint.
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Published on 1 year ago
The Englishman | The English Disease – Episode 2
Season 2 Episode 2
Sam travels to Nottingham to meet a hooligan known as ‘The Englishman’ who used football violence to navigate the fractured ideals of working-class masculinity.
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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Kicking Off | The English Disease – Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1
Sam goes to breakfast with an ex-hooligan friend to answer a question he’s circled for a decade, and sets off on a journey to reveal what’s really lurking beneath the surface of England’s game.
Extrao…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
The English Disease | Trailer
Season 2
There was a time when football hooliganism was everywhere. For decades it dominated headlines, merging the two things England loves most: football and fear.
Over the course of six episodes, writer Sam…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Inside the Qatar World Cup – Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3
What does the future look like for Qatar, football, and the people we’ve spoken to?
Sports broadcaster Kate Mason finds out more about the precarious situation of the LGBTQ+ community in the country a…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Inside the Qatar World Cup – Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2
What does this World Cup mean for Qatar? Sports broadcaster Kate Mason goes inside the Qatar club game and finds signs of a very deliberate footballing project.
But are Qatar’s intentions going to sur…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Inside the Qatar World Cup – Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1
How did we get here? Sports broadcaster Kate Mason travels back to 2010 and finds out how Qatar’s migrant worker crisis unfolded – and continues to endure to this day.
She speaks to three workers abo…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago