Birmingham’s grassroots heroes

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The 2022 Commonwealth Games is being hosted by the UK’s central city of Birmingham - ethnically diverse and where the age profile is younger compared to other British cities. It is home to many people with familial links to commonwealth member countries such as India and the Caribbean. As Birmingham welcomes 4,500 athletes from around the world, Nina Robinson talks to the city’s ‘Hometown Heroes’ - locals who have been recognised for their contribution to sport.

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0:00.0	A bomb whose creation would tip the scales of global power, a nuclear physicist who sought
0:07.9	to redress the balance.
0:11.3	The bomb, a podcast from the BBC World Service, Season 2 available now.
0:24.5	The handover ceremony to Birmingham in the English Midlands four years ago to host the
0:29.8	Commonwealth Games from Australia's Gold Coast highlighted a city with industrial roots
0:36.9	to modern day Birmingham, ethnically diverse and whether age profile is younger compared
0:43.3	to other British cities.
0:56.4	With the city welcomes around 4.5,000 athletes from the 72 nations and territories in the Commonwealth
1:03.2	Games Federation for just over a week and a half of sport, this BBC World Service documentary
1:10.1	will be seen the games through the eyes of its grassroots sports heroes, local people selected
1:16.2	to represent the games due to their contribution to community sport.
1:21.7	People like Jeevan Chagher.
1:23.3	I'm only 25 years old, I am the youngest ever person to be elected as a hockey chair in
1:28.7	English hockey history and I'm also the youngest hometown hero that has been selected for
1:32.6	the games.
1:33.6	From hundreds of entries and dubbed to the hometown heroes, they also include Netballer
1:39.0	Joan Hunter.
1:40.1	I'm a child of the Commonwealth, I actually grew up in Jamaica and like when I came to England
1:44.5	I did find it really difficult to fit in with people then I think I found sport as my
1:49.0	comfort and to sort of escape. You'll also meet wrestler Ranjit Singh and Selma B who
1:55.2	established the first South Asian women's cricket team in the UK.
2:00.1	Both talk of contributing to a Commonwealth sporting legacy.
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