Ninety years of World Service Sport
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As the BBC World Service celebrates its 90th anniversary, we look back on nine decades of sports broadcasting.
From the launch of Saturday Special in 1959 through to the present day, this is the history of BBC World Service sport featuring iconic sporting moments, familiar theme tunes and memories of presenters past and present.
Mike Costello, Russell Fuller, Caroline Barker, Lee James and Nishat Ladha join Delyth Lloyd to take a trip down memory lane.
(Photo: Sportsworld presenter Lee James at the 2018 Fifa World Cup. Credit: BBC)
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