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Episodes: 89

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The secrets to the best sportswriting in the world - featuring interviews, masterclasses and classic books backpagepress.substack.com

Episode Date
Manu Petit smokes Marlboro Reds: The importance of details, with Ryan Baldi
Oct 14, 2024
When Stam says "No" and Wrighty says "Yes"
Oct 11, 2024
A Big Announcement!
Sep 26, 2024
A Big Announcement!
Sep 25, 2024
Sports Writing Masterclass: John Greechan on getting close to the story
Dec 04, 2023
John Greechan: Revolution - Ange Postecoglou: The Man, The Methods and The Mastery
Nov 30, 2023
Andriy Shevchenko and the Making of My Life, My Football
Nov 23, 2023
Arrigo Sacchi And The Making Of The Immortals
Nov 22, 2021
Daniel Gray: Snapshot
Dec 03, 2020
Ben Reiter: The Edge
Nov 26, 2020
Henry Winter: Wild Swimming with Nigel Pearson
Nov 19, 2020
Sebastian Moffett: Japanese Rules
Nov 11, 2020
Mutiny at Hearts - The Story Behind Our Spotify Original
Nov 05, 2020
Oliver Kay: Forever Young - The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius
Oct 29, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Matt McGinn and Dark Trade
Oct 22, 2020
Matt McGinn: Against the Elements - The Eruption of Icelandic Football
Oct 21, 2020
James Pearce: At the End of the Storm
Oct 14, 2020
At the End of the Storm: Our new book with The Athletic
Oct 07, 2020
Back after the Break...
Jun 30, 2020
Matt Spiro: Sacre Bleu - From Zidane to Mbappe
Jun 17, 2020
John Carlin: Invictus, the movie
Jun 10, 2020
John Carlin: Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation
Jun 09, 2020
Ian Ridley: Addicted, Tony Adams
Jun 02, 2020
Ian Ridley: Floodlit Dreams - How to Save a Football Club
May 26, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Pete Burns and FitzSimons on Rugby
May 20, 2020
Pete Burns: How has COVID-19 impacted sports publishing?
May 19, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: James Morgan and Open / Brilliant Orange
May 13, 2020
James Morgan: The Carfin Emeralds - How Celtic players in disguise won the Kennedy Cup
May 12, 2020
Coming Soon...
May 06, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Matt & Tom Oldfield - The Nowhere Men / Playing for Keeps
Apr 29, 2020
Matt & Tom Oldfield: Ultimate Football Heroes
Apr 28, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Neil Forsyth and Floodlit Dreams
Apr 22, 2020
Neil Forsyth: Jousting with Jim McLean
Apr 21, 2020
YOUR favourite sports docs and movies
Apr 14, 2020
John Greechan: No Sport? Try a Movie Instead
Apr 07, 2020
Iain Macintosh and Kenny Millar - Football Manager Stole My Life
Apr 01, 2020
James Montague: 1312 - Among The Ultras
Mar 25, 2020
Martin BackPage: Read All About It
Mar 18, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Tom English and The Franchise
Mar 12, 2020
Tom English: The Grudge
Mar 11, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Raphael Honigstein and King of the World
Mar 05, 2020
Raphael Honigstein: How Dortmund Won the Race for Haaland
Mar 04, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Tim Lee and The Damned United
Feb 27, 2020
Tim Lee: The official film of the 2019 Champions League final
Feb 26, 2020
Andrea Pirlo, I Think Therefore I Play: with translator Mark Palmer & BackPage
Feb 19, 2020
Tim Parks: A Season with Verona
Feb 12, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Ad Hoc films - Fever Pitch and Mike Tyson
Feb 06, 2020
Mat Hodgson and Patrick Nathanson: I Am Duran
Feb 05, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Si Lloyd and Angels with Dirty Faces
Jan 30, 2020
Si Lloyd: United with Dad
Jan 29, 2020
My Favourite Sports Book: Marcus Christenson and The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
Jan 23, 2020
Marcus Christenson: The Guardian's 100 Best Footballers in the World
Jan 22, 2020
David Law: Andy Murray - Resurfacing
Jan 15, 2020
And that's a Christmas wrap...
Dec 18, 2019
The Making of ... The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
Dec 12, 2019
Pol Ballus: Pep's City, The Making of a Superteam
Dec 05, 2019
Pep's City: Behind The Scenes with BackPage
Dec 04, 2019
David Goldblatt: The Age of Football
Nov 27, 2019
Hugh MacDonald: On Hugh McIlvanney's Johnny Owen piece
Nov 20, 2019
Daniel Gray: On Hugh McIlvanney's Jock Stein piece
Nov 13, 2019
Andy Mitten: In Search of Maradona
Nov 06, 2019
Lawrence Donegan: Four Iron in the Soul
Oct 30, 2019
Oliver Kay: Matt Jansen returns to Rome
Oct 23, 2019
Ben Reiter: Astroball
Oct 15, 2019
LIVE EPISODE: Fergie to Messi - A Football Writer's Guide to the Giants of the Game
Apr 16, 2019
*REPOST* Andy Murray: The History Man
Jan 11, 2019
Jonathan Northcroft: Deadlines and Darts with Dele
Nov 26, 2018
Mike Calvin: Family
Oct 03, 2018
Michael Calvin: State of Play
Sep 30, 2018
Hugh MacDonald: Andy Murray, the history man
Jul 10, 2018
Patrick Jennings: Lev Yashin, Bullet-maker to Ballon d'Or
Jun 24, 2018
Garrincha: The triumph and tragedy of Brazil's forgotten footballing hero
Jun 21, 2018
Doctor Socrates: Andrew Downie
Jun 17, 2018
Henry Winter: Reporting on a World Cup
Jun 11, 2018
Henry Winter: 50 Years of Hurt
Jun 10, 2018
Graham Hunter: Spain - The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble
Jun 03, 2018
Grant Wahl: Football 2.0
May 16, 2018
Archie Macpherson: Jock Stein The Definitive Biography
Feb 20, 2018
James Montague: Inside the Secret World of Football in North Korea
Feb 13, 2018
Nick Harris: The Global Sports Salaries Survey
Feb 06, 2018
Richard Moore: In Search of Robert Millar
Jan 30, 2018
Grant Wahl: The World's Team
Jan 23, 2018
David Winner: Stillness & Speed (Dennis Bergkamp authorised biography)
Jan 17, 2018
David Winner: Brilliant Orange
Jan 16, 2018
Ben Reiter: How Baseball went beyond Moneyball
Jan 09, 2018
Coming attractions
Dec 22, 2017
Simon Kuper: Football Against The Enemy
Dec 19, 2017
Rory Smith: İlkay Gündoğan's knee
Dec 07, 2017
Between the Lines: trailer
Nov 08, 2017