BBC Radio 4 - Major Historical Series on the History of British Sport

David Pendleton, the author of Paraders and Glorious 1911, is researching a part time PhD into the sporting leisure of Bradford via De Montfort University's International Centre for Sports History and Culture. Next week the centre, in conjunction with the BBC, will be launching a major new 30 episode series on the history of British sport. The series will be narrated by Clare Balding and will be a flagship historical series for BBC Radio 4 in the London Olympic year.

The first episode will be broadcast at 1:45pm on Monday 30th January. An omnibus edition for each week will also be broadcast at 21:02 each Friday night.

Further information on the first episode and the series is attached below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b9h7c

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/sport-and-the-british.html

Paraders at Number One

As the picture shows, Paraders, the 125 year history of Valley Parade, is number one best seller at the Bradford branch of Waterstone's (soon to be without their apostrophe, we hear).