Bodyline: The science, sportsmanship and politics of the most infamous Ashes cricket series | ABC

Self-confessed cricket tragic Adam Zwar, with the help of biometric scientists, test cricketers past and present, historians and other passionate cricket lovers, breakdown the fast leg theory, and in doing so, discover that it wasn't just cricket that underpinned one of the most controversial moments in Anglo-Australian relations.

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01:13 | What was the bodyline series?
04:00 | Harold Larwood and bodyline
08:00 | How fast did Larwood bowl?
10:00 | Is bodyline cheating?
14:20 | Matthew Hayden on Donald Bradman
18:15 | How to read a bowler
24:00 | Oldfield hit on head by Larwood bowl
28:35 | Media coverage of the bodyline series
34:35 | Body protection in cricket: a history
44:30 | Cricket bats of the 1930s

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