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<p>This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. </p><p>There are hundreds of visually impaired athletes around the world who aren’t able to see the finish line yet can...

<p>This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In this opening episode of a new series of Unsung, we’re telling the story of the IOC’s Olympic Refugee Team.</p><p>...

<p>Hello and Happy New Year! It’s Alexis here from Unsung with our first ever public service announcement.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of our last episode in December, I mentioned that you’d next hear from us in the...

<p>With 2023 coming to a close, there’s something a little different for you in this rather frenetic episode of the Unsung podcast.</p><p>In just 40 minutes, we rattle through the sporting year via the perspective of...

<p>Our guest this time around is Phil Neale, who enjoyed a 47-year career in professional sport. Having played 369 games for Lincoln City and 354 first-class matches for Worcestershire; he’s believed to be the last man...

<p>It was 200 years ago this year that a young scholar by the name of William Webb Ellis decided to take the game of football into his own hands. Quite literally. He picked up the ball and ran from his opponents and, in...

<p>In 2007, Harry Redknapp was asked about the importance he places on the diet of his footballers. He said: “If you can’t pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta’s not going to make that much difference.”</p><p>Well...

<p>This is the Unsung Interview, introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss.</p><p>For over a century, the Tour de France has been a summer staple in the sporting calendar. Its...

<p>This is the Unsung Interview, introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss.</p><p>In this episode, Alexis speaks with the man whose creative flourish over 30 years ago left an...

<p>This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. </p><p>In episode four, we’re featuring F1 mechanics, and the inspirational story of one in particular. </p><p>Despite...

<p>This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In episode three, featuring Winter Olympic snowmakers.</p><p>The effect of climate change is an increasing challenge...

<p>This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In episode two we’re featuring football ground staff. </p><p>For most viewers of a football match, the pitch is merely...

<p>This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. The series begins, rather aptly, with a look at the job of an athletics starter.</p><p>The sound of gunfire is the...

<p>Introducing, Unsung, a new podcast about the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss.</p><p>Join me, Alexis James, as I go behind the scenes of professional sport, looking beyond the headlines...