Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation

Friday, BBC1, 8.30pm

Join comedian Jack Whitehall (right) for sporting nostalgia and clips galore as he looks back through a few of the highs and the many, many lows over the decades of Britain’s quest for glory. The opening episode of the six-part series is devoted to the events for which Britain was host nation. We go from the eccentricities of the Olympics in London in 1908 to the astonishing, world-dazzling display as the Games returned to the capital in 2012 and Team GB emerged with a clutch of gold medals on the magical ‘Super Saturday’. And then there’s the memory that still looms large more than 50 years on, at least for England: triumph at Wembley at the 1966 World Cup.