Sports Life Stories

*Sports Life Stories*
Sports Life Stories
Created by	ITV Sport
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	24
Production
Running time	60 Minutes
Production company	ITV Sport
Original release
Network	ITV4
Release	23 October 2012 –; present

Created byITV Sport

Country of originUnited Kingdom

No. of series3

No. of episodes24

Sports Life Stories is an ITV Sport documentary series shown on ITV4 and ITV. Each episode is devoted to one sporting great and lets them tell their life story alongside contributions from friends and family as well as sporting archive. The first episode told the story of boxer Barry McGuigan and aired in October 2012 on ITV4. Reporters on the series have included Gabriel Clarke, Ned Boulting, Adam Darke and Leon Mann.

Series	Episodes	Originally released
Series	Episodes	First released	Last released
1	8	23 October 2012 (2012-10-23)	11 December 2012 (2012-12-11)
2	8	22 October 2013 (2013-10-22)	17 December 2013 (2013-12-17)
3	8	17 February 2015 (2015-02-17)	14 April 2015 (2015-04-14)

No. overall	No. in series	Guest	Directed by	Original release date
1	1	Barry McGuigan	Gabriel Clarke and Tim Mackenzie-Smith	23 October 2012 (2012-10-23)
2	2	Gareth Thomas	Gabriel Clarke and Tim Mackenzie-Smith	30 October 2012 (2012-10-30)
3	3	Ronnie O'Sullivan^[1]	Lewis Hurt	6 November 2012 (2012-11-06)
4	4	Dame Kelly Holmes	Jason Bernard	13 November 2012 (2012-11-13)
5	5	Lawrence Dallaglio	Tim Mackenzie-Smith	20 November 2012 (2012-11-20)
6	6	Amir Khan	Gabriel Clarke and Neil Cox	27 November 2012 (2012-11-27)
7	7	Fabrice Muamba^[2]	Gabriel Clarke and Lewis Hurt	4 December 2012 (2012-12-04)
8	8	Brian Lara	Jason Bernard	11 December 2012 (2012-12-11)

No. overall	No. in series	Guest	Directed by	Original release date
9	1	James Cracknell^[3]	Gabriel Clarke and Tim Mackenzie-Smith	22 October 2013 (2013-10-22)
10	2	David Weir^[4]	James Williams	29 October 2013 (2013-10-29)
11	3	Jermain Defoe	Tim Mackenzie-Smith	5 November 2013 (2013-11-05)^[5]
12	4	Nicola Adams	Jay Gill	12 November 2013 (2013-11-12)
13	5	Jimmy White	Lewis Hurt	26 November 2013 (2013-11-26)
14	6	Eric Bristow	Gabriel Clarke and Tim Mackenzie-Smith	3 December 2013 (2013-12-03)
15	7	Didier Drogba	Daniel Hart	10 December 2013 (2013-12-10)
16	8	Chris Eubank	Gabriel Clarke and Guney Gok	17 December 2013 (2013-12-17)

No. overall	No. in series	Guest	Directed by	Original release date
17	1	Peter Shilton^[6]	Lewis Hurt	17 February 2015 (2015-02-17)
18	2	Chris Froome	Ned Boulting and Andrew Hill	24 February 2015 (2015-02-24)
19	3	Paula Radcliffe	Luke Mellows	3 March 2015 (2015-03-03)
20	4	Andy Cole^[7]	Shurwin Beckford and Laurence Koe	10 March 2015 (2015-03-10)
21	5	Linford Christie	Adam Maynard	24 March 2015 (2015-03-24)
22	6	John Barnes^[8]	Gabriel Clarke and Jay Gill	31 March 2015 (2015-03-31)
23	7	Jason Robinson	Joe Blake-Turner	7 April 2015 (2015-04-07)
24	8	Carl Froch	Martyn Reardon	14 April 2015 (2015-04-14)

Sports Life Stories

Episodes

Series 1 (2012)

Series 2 (2013)

Series 3 (2015)

Critical success

References

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