For seven years between 1991 and 1998 Katya Antoniuk was the Belarus cross-country skiing champion.  She regularly competed across Europe and won several cross-country skiing marathons.  Then, in 1998, she fulfilled a lifetime ambition when she took part in the Winter Olympics, at Nagano in Japan where she finished 42nd among a tough field of competitors in the women’s 15 kilometres.  Katya talks about her skiing career and about her journey to faith from a background of atheism to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ.

14 Dec: Katya Antoniuk, Winter Olympics Cross Country Skier

On this week's show we talk about football in Uganda, and we have an interview with Cranes striker Emmanuel Okwi. Okwi has over 50 appearances for Uganda and is currently playing in Tanzania. Also we ask which African national team showed the most improvement in 2017 – Uganda are certainly a contender. And we catch up on the latest in the EPL.

15 Dec: Uganda's Emmanuel Okwi & 2017's most improved African nation

In the first part of our Review of the Year, Planet Sport Africa correspondent Solomon Ashoms in Johannesburg and former English Premier League football referee Bob Hamer in UK look back on their personal three highlights from 2017.  Bob's selections all come from football while Solomon's choice includes athletics, football and American football.

21 Dec: Review of the Year, Part 1

On this week's show we focus on football in Cameroon, where it's been a year of mixed fortunes in football. After becoming surprise winners of the AFCON with a young team, the Indomitable Lions then were very uninspiring at the Confederations Cup in Russia and failed to qualify for next year's World Cup. But a national Football Academy has just been set up, and we find out more. And we speak to Nigeria and Chelsea winger Victor Moses, looking back at 2017 and telling us about his childhood – he arrived in England as an asylum-seeking orphan, and ended up as a Premier League player.

22 Dec: Chelsea's Victor Moses & football in Cameroon

As the last Planet Sport programme of 2017 we’re looking back over the past year with two of our reporters, Liam Flint and Tom Ellis, to review some of the sporting highlights from the past twelve months.  We look back at the English Premier League, the Fifa Under 17s World Cup and the World Athletics Championships and hear from some of the sportsmen and women who made the news, including the USA's world triple jump champion, Christian Taylor.

28 Dec: Review of 2017, part 2

On this week's show we look back at our highlights of 2017 on the show, with some of our best interviews. We spoke to many players and officials, among them FIFA president Gianni Infantino, 1978 African Footballer of the Year Abdul Razak of Ghana, and Nigeria's Odion Ighalo.

29 Dec: Review of 2017 - Gianni Infantino, Abdul Razak & Odion Oghala

We look forward to an exciting year of sport as Planet Sport correspondent Stuart Weir looks ahead to the Fifa World Cup in Russia, the Commonwealth Games in Australia and the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England.  We get into the mood for the World Cup as we recall our visit to the Maracanã Stadium in Rio for the 2014 World Cup quarter final between Colombia and Uruguay and we hear from the head of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games organising committee, Peter Beattie.

04 Jan: 2018 Sports Preview - World Cup, Commonwealth Games & Athletics

On this week's show we look ahead to the football action in 2018, where the Fifa World Cup is the main attraction. We speak to Daniel Amokachi, who has played for Nigeria in two World Cups and coached the Super Eagles at two editions of the tournament. Amokachi is extremely optimistic about Africa's chances this time around. 

We look ahead to the knockout stage of the Uefa Champions League, we catch up on the latest in the EPL after a very busy couple of weeks. And Stuart profiles the EPL's only black manager, Brighton's Chris Hughton.

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