Crossed Wires presents Sixty Years of Hurt

The England football team always, somehow, represents a nation. Its dramas are England’s dramas, its divisions are England’s divisions, its failures are England’s failures, its story is England's story. A story about expectation and reality, power and rivalry, class and race, violence and beauty. But what is that narrative, and what does it all mean?

As World Cup fever peaks, Join Elis James in conversation with David Baddiel, comedian, writer, football fan and presenter of Sixty Years of Hurt, his series for BBC Radio 4’s The History Podcast, to explore the meaning of England and Englishness through the history of the England team.