BBC Radio 4 is set to transmit a documentary on Saturday 7 April at 10.30am about the 1987 Boat Race.

Olympic gold medal-winning rower James Cracknell re-examines one of British sporting history’s "most controversial incidents" according to Radio 4 - The 1987 Oxford Boat Race Mutiny.

Known simply as ‘the Oxford Mutiny’ the tale, say Radio 4, stands out in Boat Race history as one of the most dramatic incidents in its 153 year standing. After a devastating loss to Cambridge in 1986, Oxford had an influx of international rowers for their 1987 Race squad.

But just six weeks before The Race, after a row over crew selection and training programmes half of the squad, including the international rowers, walked out. Oxford University had no ‘Blue Boat’ to take on Cambridge.

With just over a month until Race Day, Oxford assembled a new eight composed of many fromm the reserves. Against all the odds, and in horrific weather conditions, that crew went on to win the 1987 Boat Race.

Radio 4’s half hour feature fuses personal recollections and individual opinion together with news and sport archive recordings from 1987. The listener will hear about the apparent causes of the mutiny, the effects of the worldwide media attention on the Oxford Rowing Squad and find out how an inexperienced Oxford crew eventually took on Cambridge and won."