TV tonight: Crufts 2024 promises four days of pawfection
Animal-mad Clare Balding is at the helm of the canine festival coverage. Plus: an out-of-this-world pitch on Dragons’ Den. Here’s what to watch this evening
March 2023
Clare Balding revealed as new face of BBC’s Wimbledon TV coverage
The BBC has confirmed that Clare Balding will lead the live television coverage of Wimbledon following the retirement of Sue Barker after 30 years in the role
June 2022
Rio Ferdinand given OBE and Damian Lewis CBE in Queen’s birthday honours list
Gareth Bale, Eve Muirhead, Bonnie Tyler and Chi-chi Nwanoku among honourees from arts and sport
May 2022
Turn us on: a Bafta TV special
Clare Balding’s year in TV: ‘My wife and I tried to eat at the table during the pandemic, but we’re back on the sofa’
Kirsty Young to anchor Queen’s platinum jubilee coverage on BBC
February 2022
TV tonight
TV tonight: the Winter Olympics are here
Clare Balding kicks off the daily Games roundup with the Beijing opening ceremony. Plus, Uma Thurman joins Graham Norton. Here’s what to watch tonight
December 2020
The Comeback review – comedy that sparkles by double act The Pin
Described as ‘the cure for theatre’ by producer Sonia Friedman, Alex Owen and Ben Ashenden’s debut play is full of heart, pleasing pratfalls and endless flips of perspective
July 2020
New RFL president Clare Balding wants women's game to become professional
Guardian Sport Network
Tony Adams: ‘Hopefully people have had periods of reflection in lockdown’
January 2020
Clare Balding pulls out of arms trade dinner
Campaign group urged broadcaster to rethink over companies’ role in Yemen civil war
September 2019
Lucy Bronze meets Clare Balding: 'The World Cup will haunt me for the rest of my life'
Clare Balding, broadcaster, meets Lucy Bronze, England and Lyon player
June 2018
The shifting patterns of English
May I have a word about... national treasures, real and fake
Jonathan Bouquet
Ubiquity is not enough for the honour, Clare Balding, and Jonathan Meades, while very deserving, wouldn’t want it
February 2018
Sportblog
It’s nice to win but Britain is choking on a toxic obsession with medals
Barney Ronay
The fetishising of Team GB at the Winter Olympics feeds into the notion of medal hunting, of glossy PR at the expense of sport for all
Our dark political times have infected the Winter Olympics
Jack Bernhardt
From Russia’s drug-abusing to North Korea’s cheerleaders and way too much Mike Pence, the dystopian Games bode ill, writes comedian Jack Bernhardt
The politics sketch
I enjoy the Winter Olympics, but what I’d really like is spring to come a bit sooner
John Crace
So why did I drive through snow and freezing cold to watch Spurs take on Juventus in Turin?
October 2017
How BBC star Clare Balding nicked my byline
An interview with the all-round good egg and nation’s darling? What could possibly go wrong ... until the nightmare of ‘copy control’ started
July 2017
TV review
Dogs: An Amazing Animal Family review – canine genealogy with a soundtrack to howl for
Patrick Aryee is in his element in a show that’s mostly about saying ‘awwww. Plus Clare Balding on Who Do You Think You Are?
TV review
When Football Banned Women review – Clare Balding recalls the beautiful game’s ugliest decision
After the first world war, women’s football drew big crowds before the sport was banned by the FA. It’s an extraordinary story, ripe for further investigation
TV tonight
Tuesday’s best TV: When Football Banned Women; In the Dark
Fascinating lost sporting history as Clare Balding recalls the rise of women’s football, and a cracking cast contines to shine in the serial-killer drama
December 2016
2016 in TV
From Ed Balls to Honey G: TV heroes and villains of 2016
Who clinches the coveted prize for most devilish golfer? Who wins for services to chill? We announce TV’s biggest champions and baddies of the year
