Episode 1

Overview

It's the game that divides and unites both nations. For over 130 years, England and Australia have played out a unique cricketing competition. Contested roughly every two years, the two nations compete for one of the most famous, and diminutive, trophies in sport - the Ashes urn. Featuring candid and uncensored interviews with many of the key protagonists from the last 50 years of sport's greatest rivalry, FORGED IN FIRE chronicles the moments and memories, key battles and back-stories, that has made this erce cricketing contest so special over so many years.