Cricket's County Championship began last week, so this week's episode looks at the huge role that cricket played in the birth of the football codes. I...

Thursday 8 April is the anniversary of the 1995 meeting in Wigan when British rugby league agreed with Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd to switch to a summer...

29 March 2021 is the 25th anniversary of the very first game in Super League, so part one of a special double episode steps back in time to examine th...

Barely six months after Super League pulled out of Toronto, the US-based XFL is in talks with the Canadian Football League about a potential merger. T...

Manchester City and United are currently dominating the English Premier League - but until the 20th century Manchester was seen as a hotbed of rugby, ...

To mark International Women's Day 2021, this episode talks to Julia Lee, one of the true pioneers of British rugby league. Julia was the first women e...

The birth of rugby league coincided with a wave of Jewish immigration to Britain in the 1890s, and Jews in the big cities of northern England quickly ...

As the new NRL season is about to raise the value of the drop-goal for the first time in 130 years, the new ‘Rugby Reloaded’ investigates the history ...

Humans have thrown and kicked a ball towards some form of goal fo as long as people have lived in communities. In any historical period, in part of th...

Although rugby's great split of 1895 is often portrayed as a professional breakaway, it also led to the vast majority of amateur rugby clubs in the no...