Death of a Sports Star

These are the unforgettable, tragic stories of superstars we loved and lost - told as you’ve never heard them before.

  • 7 minutes 13 seconds
    Introducing: Oceans: Life Under Water

    What do you hear at the bottom of the ocean? How does it feel to swim with whales? Or make friends with an octopus? Come and find out. This is Life Under Water.


    Wildlife filmmaker and TV personality Hannah Stitfall wants to take you the world below the waves. She’ll be chatting to freedivers, marine biologists, submarine pilots and more, hearing mind-boggling stories about the oceans-deep and its inhabitants. We explore The Lost City. We hang out with your favourite animals. The hypnotic sound design and storytelling will drop you right there.


    Oceans: Life Under Water is brought to you by Crowd Network and Greenpeace UK, which is how these stories can be told so beautifully but also responsibly.

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    29 February 2024, 3:00 am
  • 26 minutes 43 seconds
    Shane Warne

    Sometimes headlines don’t make sense."Shane Warne dead"? Those are three words that don’t belong together. No matter how many times you hear it, no matter how many different ways you’re told, it doesn’t make sense. Not Shane. Not dead. You read it once. You read it twice. A second stretches and seven stages of grief fill the gap. The fourth of March 2022 is like that...

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    3 April 2022, 10:00 pm
  • 35 minutes 29 seconds
    Mike Webster

    Mike Webster is one of the greatest American Football players who ever lived. But there’s another story. One that begins before his death, but hits the headlines after. One that changes American Football forever. It’s a story that could have died with Mike if it weren’t for two things: a young pathologist, and a hunch.

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    15 February 2021, 12:30 am
  • 33 minutes 51 seconds
    Ben Hollioake

    You’ve never seen a cricketer like Ben Hollioake. But this kid who’s set to shred record books, barely makes the small print. He only plays two tests. Twenty one-dayers.


    And there are numbers that matter more. Because Ben, still only 24, is dead on a slip road on the other side of the world. Miles per hour. Models of sports car. Whether there are millimetres of rain on the road or milligrams of alcohol in his blood. So many numbers, but none of them an answer...

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    8 February 2021, 12:30 am
  • 28 minutes 18 seconds
    Dale Earnhardt

    NASCAR racing is never the same after Dale Earnhardt’s death. It sounds dramatic, but that’s what Dale means to people. 


    There’s never been a race car driver like him. He’s loved by most, for the same reason he’s hated by the rest. He races harder than anyone ever has. And his death changes NASCAR forever.

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    1 February 2021, 12:30 am
  • 30 minutes 22 seconds
    Anthony Foley

    Sometimes, when a famous sports star dies, you get the sense all those people mourning definitely loved that person, but not that they truly knew them. Not with Anthony Foley. He is his home city. He belongs to everyone. And no-one’s ready to say goodbye.

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    25 January 2021, 12:30 am
  • 34 minutes 22 seconds
    Ayrton Senna

    Ayrton Senna was more than just the greatest racing driver who ever lived. He made cars dance. One rival said he made cars move like raindrops on a pavement. So good, he made us all poets. But there wasn't anything poetic about Senna’s death. There usually isn’t in motor racing. 

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    18 January 2021, 12:30 am
  • 32 minutes 41 seconds
    Duncan Edwards

    Duncan Edwards was the complete footballer. A comic-book hero leaping into the sports pages. He could’ve changed it all. Could've been the greatest footballer of all time. But we never got to find out. It was all lost in a mess of snow and fire and broken steel on a frozen German runway. 

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    11 January 2021, 12:30 am
  • 26 minutes 10 seconds
    Diego Maradona

    When you think about how Diego Maradona lived, and died - when you think about how he’s remembered, why there’s so much love and hate - it all comes down to the story of few short years in the city of Naples. How he came back, the miracles he pulled off, the price he paid. He gets higher than anyone else, and he falls faster. That’s Diego.

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    21 December 2020, 4:00 am
  • 33 minutes 16 seconds
    Hansie Cronje

    Hansie Cronje was South Africa’s captain, endorsed by Nelson Mandela. But he was also a scam artist, mixing with criminals. His story has lies, greed, bribery, threats, corruption and ultimately a plane crash that ended his life.

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    14 December 2020, 1:00 am
  • 31 minutes 39 seconds
    Sarah Burke

    "Sarah's the reason we're all here. Without Sarah, none of us would be Olympians" - that's what Sarah Burke did for her sport, even after her death. She was a trailblazer, a daredevil and a star of the X Games.

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    7 December 2020, 12:20 am
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