{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox radio show | show_name = Sportsweek | image = | imagesize = | caption = | other_names = | format = Sports interview show | runtime = 60 minutes (approx) | country = UK | language = English | home_station = BBC Radio 5 Live | presenter = Garry Richardson | audio_format = | record_location = BBC Television Centre (5 Live Compound), London | creator = | writer = | producer = | first_aired = | last_aired = Present | num_series = | num_episodes = | opentheme = | endtheme = | website = [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070lk9 The official BBC website] | podcast = [http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/sportsweek Sportsweek Podcast] }}
'''''Sportsweek''''' was a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live. The show aired on Sunday mornings and was presented by Garry Richardson, who is also a presenter on the ''Today'' show on BBC Radio 4. The show was produced by Richardson's own production company, Frontpage Media.<ref>{{cite news |first=Matthew |last=Beard |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/garry-richardson-theres-a-way-of-asking-a-question-a-third-time-468759.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708162103/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/garry-richardson-theres-a-way-of-asking-a-question-a-third-time-468759.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2009 |title=Garry Richardson: 'There's a way of asking a question a third time |work=The Independent |date=6 March 2006 |accessdate=16 March 2010}}</ref>
==Format== Richardson interviews a host of well-known names from the world of sport throughout the 60-minute show, often pressing his guest for information. On the show he is famous for asking questions to interviewees three times in order to elicit the response he is looking for.<ref>{{cite web|first=Giles |last=Lucas |url=http://www.westerneye.net/story/interview-garry-richardson |title=Interview with Garry Richardson |work=Western Eye |date=23 February 2010 |access-date=16 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305195645/http://westerneye.net/story/interview-garry-richardson |archive-date=5 March 2010 }}</ref>
== Awards == The show won an award for Best Sports Programme at the Sony Awards in 2007.<ref name = "Sony">{{cite news |first=Emily |last=Dugan |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/memory-of-peel-lives-on-as-pioneer-wins-radio-bafta-446961.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116174621/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/memory-of-peel-lives-on-as-pioneer-wins-radio-bafta-446961.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 January 2009 |title=Memory of Peel lives on as pioneer wins 'Radio BAFTA' |work=The Independent |date=1 May 2007 |accessdate=16 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radioawards.org/news/?4 |title=Sony Radio Academy Awards 2007 |work=Sony Radio Academy Awards |publisher=Sony |date=30 April 2007 |accessdate=16 March 2010}}</ref> It was the second 5 Live radio show to win a Sony Award that year, with 5 Live Breakfast picking up the award for News and Current Affairs Programme.<ref name = "Sony" />
== Famous presenters == * Garry Richardson<ref>{{cite web |last1=Austin |first1=Simon |title=Broadcaster Garry Richardson has presented the final ever edition of his flagship BBC Radio 5 Live programme Sportsweek, after 20 years and more than 850 shows. |url=https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/broadcasting-news/2019/09/richardson-presents-final-ever-sportsweek-after-20-years |website=Prolific North |publisher=Prolific North |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref> * John Watson<ref>{{cite web |last1=Watson |first1=John |title=John Watson, Sports Presenter for BBC News |url=https://www.aldridgefoundation.com/video/john-watson/ |website=Aldridge Foundation |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref> * Hugh Woozencroft (broadcast assistant)<ref>{{cite web |title=Hugh Woozencroft:Biography |url=https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/staff-directory/hugh-woozencroft |publisher=St Mary's university |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref>
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