If you’ve ever wondered what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared an outbreak of “bicycle faces”; or what led to ancient Egyptian athletes having their spleens removed, the book Everything to Play For has your answer.
It’s the brainchild of Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin, both senior editors and writers of the ` quiz show QI (Quite Interesting).
Anna joins Sunday Morning to tackle the sport’s strangest rules and most unlikely heroes, promising to cover everything from pole vaulting priests to professional pillow fights.
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