How to Spot Potential - Sporting Success

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Kate Mason looks at how potential can be assessed in the world of professional football with Brentford FC player Michael Olakigbe and talent spotter Lee Dykes.

From cycling, Dan Bigham tells us how the potential of technology helped him take on the professionals.

Cricketing broadcaster and Director of women’s cricket at Surrey, Ebony Rainford Brent, discusses the Ace programme which helps young people from a range of backgrounds find their potential as cricketers.

And we also go back to the 1970s to discover a technique to help us improve our own sporting potential. That idea has now also been widely adopted in business.

Presenter: Kate Mason Producer: Julian Siddle

Transcript

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:39.0	Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Kate Mason, the host of the Radio 4 series
0:48.0	How to Spot Potential. I've always felt that everyone has potential. It's just a case of figuring out how to develop it, but not everyone agrees.
0:58.0	So we took five 15 minute episodes to talk to people in sports, in music, education and the world of work
1:05.2	about what we mean when we talk about human potential, how we can find it, and what
1:11.4	organizations are doing to make the most of it. We hear about how a
1:16.2	self-taught classical musician in Kenya became the first pianist from his country
1:21.1	to study at a top music college.
1:24.0	How a cyclist who was overlooked by the national squad decided to go ahead and beat them by himself
1:29.2	the very same year and how our future potential could be even greater with the help of a
1:35.8	digital twin sounds all right doesn't it? To listen to all the episodes just
1:41.6	search for how to Spot Potential on BBC Sounds.
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