Play the Game Podcast

sports, society, culture, soccer · EN

A podcast about the people, powers, and politics shaping sport. Play the Game Podcast will bring you some of the voices, stories, and debates that rarely get enough space in the world of sport. For almost three decades, Play the Game has worked to create space for open, critical, and informed dialogue about international sport.We have done so through our conferences, analyses, and journalism. Now, we are bringing that work to your headphones.You will hear from investigative journalists, researchers, athletes, whistleblowers, sports leaders, decision-makers, and other voices who help uncover what is happening behind the scenes of international sport.We will bring you interviews, narrated articles, conference presentations, and critical debates on some of the biggest challenges facing sport today — from corruption, matchfixing, doping, and human rights to geopolitics, gambling, sustainability, athlete welfare, and abuse in sport.Some episodes will give new life to important material