This is 99% Invisible, Episode 127, The Sound of Sport.

Although you’ve heard a few brief episodes of 99% Invisible, this episode is actually a re-broadcast of a documentary produced by Peregrine Andrews that was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. The episode talks about the various ways sound designers “score” the soundscape of sporting events. Even “live” events can be highly produced, meaning the TV experience of live sports is very different from the experience of being there. “Is this enhanced sound so very different from that of a film or a video game? Are sound designers raising our expectations of how “real” sport should sound?”