Unsung
by Alexis James
Latest episode
Hawk-Eye: The AI Visionary Who Revolutionised Sport
Hawk-Eye: The AI Visionary Who Revolutionised Sport
About this podcast
Introducing Unsung, a podcast about the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss.
Join sports writer Alexis James as he goes behind the scenes of professional sport, looking beyond the headlines to introduce and celebrate its hidden stars.
Meet athletics starters, snowmakers, F1 mechanics, guide runners, and unheralded athletes as Unsung shines a rare spotlight on the integral men and women in the shadows, interwoven in the fabric of sport.
For while its biggest stars and household names enjoy the glory, tucked away amid sport’s small print and voiceless under its fanfare is a band of unsung heroes rarely acknowledged, let alone championed. And it's about time that changed.
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Episodes
- Hawk-Eye: The AI Visionary Who Revolutionised Sport · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 7This is the Unsung podcast, introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In this episode, we meet and tell the story of one of the most…
- Not All Heroes Wear Kits: Unsung Live at the Morpeth Book Festival · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 6This is the Unsung podcast, introducing the sports starts you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. We’ve got a special episode for you this time around, which was…
- Gridiron Bling: A Peculiar History of Super Bowl Rings · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 5This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. When it comes shamelessly over the top sporting events, the Super Bowl is…
- Our Top Sports Stories of 2024: The Unsung Year in Review · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 4This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. As the final whistle blows on 2024, we’re back with a review of the sporting…
- In Deep: A Day in the Life of a Volunteer Lifeguard · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 3This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In the UK alone, over four million people participated in some form of swimming…
- Eyes on the Prize: The Hidden World of Paralympic Guides · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 2This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. There are hundreds of visually impaired athletes around the world who aren’t able…
- Beyond Borders: A Refugee’s Journey to the Olympic Games · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 1This 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…
- Vote for Unsung in the 2024 Sports Podcast Awards! · 2 minHello and Happy New Year! It’s Alexis here from Unsung with our first ever public service announcement. At the end of our last episode in December, I mentioned that you’d next…
- Our Top Sports Stories of 2023: The Unsung Year in Review · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 10With 2023 coming to a close, there’s something a little different for you in this rather frenetic episode of the Unsung podcast. In just 40 minutes, we rattle through the…
- Interview: Touring with England’s Cricketers, with Phil Neale · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 9Our 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…
- Interview: Mending the All Blacks, with Doc Mayhew · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 8It 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…
- Interview: The Performance Chef Fuelling the Premier League, with Rachel Muse · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 7In 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…
- Interview: 40 Years Photographing the Tour de France, with Graham Watson · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 6This is the Unsung Interview, introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. For over a century, the Tour de France has been a summer staple in…
- Interview: Composing the Champions League Anthem, with Tony Britten · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 5This is the Unsung Interview, introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In this episode, Alexis speaks with the man whose creative flourish…
- Parc Fermé: The Female Mechanic Who Smashed F1’s Glass Ceiling · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 4This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In episode four, we’re featuring F1 mechanics, and the inspirational story of one…
- Snow Whisperers: The Olympic Snowmakers Playing Mother Nature At Her Own Game · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 3This is Unsung. Introducing the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. In episode three, featuring Winter Olympic snowmakers. The effect of climate…
- Coup de Grass: The Grumpy Groundsmen Turned Turf Revolutionaries · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 2This 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. For most viewers of a…
- Start Me Up: The Athletics Starter Who Blunted Bolt · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 1This 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…
- Unsung - Trailer · 2 minIntroducing, Unsung, a new podcast about the sports stars you don’t know, telling the stories you can’t miss. Join me, Alexis James, as I go behind the scenes of professional…
