Planet Sport

We're at the Diamond League track and field athletics event to hear from men's 800 metres world record holder David Rudisha along with world champion 3000 metres steeplechaser Milcah Chemos and Olympic 200 metres champion, Allyson Felix. And in Brazil we find out how the sport of futsal is offering hope to children caught up in lives of violence and crime.

We look back on a great 2014 World Cup and compare the show Brazil has put on as hosts with the previous two editions in Germany and South Africa. And we find out how football is helping young people in Rio de Janeiro caught up in violence and crime.

We talk to US World Cup captain Clint Dempsey about his career and faith and find out about the Rio beach sport of Foot Volley.

In this week's show from Rio de Janeiro we meet Brazil fans at a Fan Site, find out about the role of chaplains in the Cameroon team and hear from Costa Rica's 2002 World Cup captain, Reynaldo Parks.

We talk to former professional player in Iran, David Parinejad, about the passion Iranians have for football and meet fans on Copacabana Beach in Brazil to support their teams in the World Cup.

We hear from athletes competing at last Thursday's IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome including Brianna Rollins, Will Clay and Dawn Harper-Nelson and we talk to Colombia striker Falcao who will now miss the World Cup through injury.

The show comes from Rio de Janeiro as Planet Sport prepares for the World Cup. We visit the Maracana Stadium with local historian Bruno Lucena to find out about the history of this iconic sporting venue.

British football commentator John Motson shares his thoughts on the players to watch at this year's World Cup and our Chief Football Correspondent, Stuart Weir, tells us which players he thinks have the most to gain, and to lose, in Brazil. And we continue our interview with Radamel Falcao as the AS Monaco and Colombia striker talks about his first international match and his hat-trick against Chelsea in the 2012 UEFA Super Cup.

We're at the Great City Games in Manchester to talk to athletes Tiffany Porter, Kenenisa Bekele and Wilson Kipsang and the AS Monaco and Colombia striker, Falcao, tells how how his career in football began.

Former F1 driver Alex Ribeiro from Brazil reviews Lewis Hamilton's win in the Spanish Grand Prix and shares his personal memories of three-times world champion Ayrton Senna who died twenty years ago this month.

Part Two of the Tu Nu'uali'itia Story as the former Auckland and Western Samoa rugby player talks more about his rugby career and two Rugby World Cups and his Christian faith.

We talk to former Auckland and Western Samoa scrum half Tu Nu'uali'itia who played in the 1991 and 1995 Rugby World Cups about his life, career highlights and faith.

We discuss the next step for Manchester United after sacking manager David Moyes and look forward to this weekend's fixtures in the Barclay's Premier League as the main contenders in title race approach the finishing line. And we talk to Liverpool and England legend, Michael Owen.

We hear from the winners of the elite races at Sunday's London Marathon and women's elite winner Edna Kiplagat talks about her Foundation to support orphaned children in Kenya. In football we discuss respect and pressure in the race to the Premier League title and hear how AC Milan and Brazil midfielder Kaka copes with pressure.

We follow this year's Street Child World Cup in Brazil which aims to raise awareness of the needs of the world's street children and talk to the group's co-founder and CEO, John Wroe.

Former Liverpool and England legend John Barnes shares his thoughts on why England will struggle at the 2014 World Cup finals and the importance of national introducing young players to the international scene. Chief Football Correspondent Stuart Weir assesses Barnes' views.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the reigning world and Olympic 100m champion, world 200m champion and world indoor 60m champion. She has won both the Olympic and world 100m titles twice. In an exclusive interview the 27-year-old Jamaican talks to us about the faith that drives and directs her life on and off the track.

We discuss the reasons behind the dramatic improvement in Australian Test cricket and Jamaica's world and Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce talks about her faith.

We talk to two athletes at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Sopot, Canada's 1500m bronze medallist Nicole Sifuentes and Zambian 60m finalist, Gerald Phiri. And we preview the upcoming Formula One season with former F1 driver, Alex Ribeiro, from Brazil.

We review the latest action in the English Premier League and talk to two athletes ahead of the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland - GBR's 400m runner Margaret Adeoye and Kenya's 3000m steeplechase world silver medallist, Lydia Chepkurui.