BT Sport announces Premiership rugby docs

BT Sport has announced Rugby Stories, a series of documentaries about Premiership rugby clubs.

Airing on Friday evenings at 10pm, after a live Premiership or Champions Cup match, each episode will highlight a story from a different Premiership club. These will include how clubs including Saracens and Leicester have won a domestic or European title or how others such as Worcester Warriors have overcome adversity like the threat of relegation. 

The first episode, called The Sting, airs on Friday 4 March at 10pm on BT Sport 1 and will feature the story of Wasps winning The Heineken Cup in 2004 and speaks to the likes of Lawrence Dallaglio, Tom Voyce and Rob Howley. It continues with The Obsession, on Friday 11 March at 10pm on BT Sport 1, focusing on Leicester Tigers’ start to the new millennium when they won their first Heineken Cup - with contributions from Austin Healey, Ben Kay and Tim Stimpson. 

Sally Brown, executive producer at BT Sport Films, said: “We are proud of our position as the home of English and European club rugby, and Rugby Stories will take this to a new level. Rugby fans will re-live some of the game’s most iconic stories with a fresh approach that spotlights tales from the training ground, the changing rooms and inside the scrums.”