They say patience is a virtue but is there a role for patience in today’s highly-competitive world of football? West Ham and Newcastle stuck with their managers in poor spells and are now seeing the rewards. Now fans at Arsenal want manager Arsene Wenger to go after a disappointing start to the season. Our Chief Football Correspondent Stuart Weir gives his perspective and Zambia’s international striker Jacob Mulenga who plays his football today in Turkey talks about patience from a player's perspective.

We talk to Crystal Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni who has won the club's Player of the Year award a record four times about the art of his trade and his faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. And former Brazilian Formula 1 driver Alex Ribeiro talks about his new book called "What It Takes".

We are joined by former F1 driver Alex Ribeiro in Brazil to review an enthralling season in Formula 1 and assess Lewis Hamilton's second Drivers Championship title. And in athletics we talk to this season's Diamond League champion in the women's 400 metres hurdles, Kaliese Spencer from Jamaica.

In tennis we hear from Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer after the ATP World Tour Finals in London and we assess the progress of teams ahead of next years Rugby World Cup as the southern and northern sides play a series of Test matches in Europe.

South African marathon runner Hendrick Ramaala talks about his continuing career at the age of 42 and why he's mentoring a new generation of athletes and we talk to this year's Diamond League champion in the women's 100 metres hurdles, Dawn Harper-Nelson.

Ray Price played 22 Tests and 102 One-Day Internationals in a career spanning thirteen years. As a slow left-arm bowler he had best Test figures of 6-73 against the West Indies in Tests and took five wickets in an innings on five occasions. He retired in 2011 after becoming only the second Zimbabwean to play in the Indian Premier League. He talks about his cricket career and his faith as a follower of Jesus Christ.

We report from South Africa following the tragic deaths of former World 800m champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi in a car crash on Friday and Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa who was shot in an apparent attempted robbery on Sunday. We delve into the archives for our interview with Mulaudzi at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. And we consider whether we should expect all footballers to be role models.

Tu Nu'ulai'itia recalls the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa when he scored a try for Western Samoa in the quarter finals against the Springboks, the hosts and eventual winners. And we hear from former Wallabies captain Nick Farr-Jones about Australia's memorable Bledisloe Cup victory in New Zealand in 1986.

One year ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup our rugby correspondent and former Samoa international Tu Nu'uali'itia shares his career highlights including playing in the 1991 World Cup when Samoa memorably beat Wales in Cardiff.

We talk to Springbok winger Cornal Hendricks, one of the stars of South Africa's Commonwealth Games Rugby 7s winning team and part of last Saturday's Rugby Championship side that beat New Zealand. And following the death of 1936 Olympic silver medallist Dorothy Tyler we go back into the archives to hear an interview in which she talks about her Olympic memories.