Raheem Sterling’s Today Programme
Best of Today
BBC
4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The England and Manchester City footballer, Raheem Sterling used his Today programme guest edit to look at the issue of social mobility, after launching his own foundation earlier this year. His programme featured reporting from Jamaica where he was born and North London where he grew up.
For his programme he also sat down with England manager, Gareth Southgate, the man he credits for his transition from being a target for a hostile press to a young man now trying to be the role model which so many call on footballers to become.
It also featured interviews with his mum Nadine and his sporting hero Usain Bolt. With Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, welcome to the best of today. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Nick Robinson. |
| 0:07.6 | At this time of year, we invite guests to edit the Today program |
| 0:11.1 | to inject their own insights, their own experience, |
| 0:14.5 | their own knowledge to what we do day to day. |
| 0:17.7 | Our guest editor this morning is one of the stars of England's Euro 2020 team, |
| 0:22.6 | the England and Manchester City footballer Rahim Sterling. Still only 2070s had a remarkable |
| 0:28.3 | life. Born in Jamaica, a country his family left after his father was murdered. |
| 0:34.2 | Rahim was raised in North London by his remarkable single mum, who worked for years as a cleaner. |
| 0:40.0 | He became a teenage prodigy and someone determined now to help future Rahim Sterlings. |
| 0:46.7 | He set up a foundation in order to focus that work on social mobility. |
| 0:51.7 | In the area he now plays in, Manchester, where he was brought up, Brent, North London, and also his birthplace of Jamaica. |
| 1:00.2 | When that foundation was launched near Rahim's school in Wembley in North London, my colleague Amal Rajan, him and to talk to his inspirational mum. |
| 1:16.5 | Rahim Sterling grew up just a mile away from here and he's come back today to start his |
| 1:20.8 | next journey away from football by creating more chances for kids like him with the Rahim Sterling |
| 1:26.4 | Foundation. |
| 1:30.9 | Students from the school he attended, Ark Elvin Academy and Brent, |
| 1:33.3 | are eagerly awaiting a mystery guest, |
| 1:37.5 | not knowing that one of their most famous alumni is about to surprise them. |
| 1:45.3 | Rahim has just come down the stairs, the famous stairs of Wembley. |
| 1:49.4 | He's at the top of Wembley Way where all these wonderful children have come here. |
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