EXCLUSIVE: Global podcast studio Wondery is moving into the UK sports space. The Amazon-owned company has ordered its first UK sports original podcast, Everything to Play For, and signed a distribution and ad-sales rep deal for award-winning pod The Socially Distant Sports Bar.
Everything to Play For launches its first two episodes on all podcast services on June 10, hosted by Countdown and sports presenter Colin Murray and comedian, actor and broadcaster Elis James.
The podcast, from Wondery and Crowd Network, aims to take listeners into stories behind the most iconic sporting moments, great rivalries, brave underdogs and astonishing comebacks.
Season one will feature former footballer Wayne Rooney, who as a prestigiously talented 18-year-old in 2004 carried the hopes of England on his shoulders.
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