The great playing field sell off?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Given that some countries are richer than others, and some have larger populations, what should the Olympic medal tally really have looked like? Also: numbers help us understand the world. But for Daniel Tammet, author of “Thinking in Numbers". They don't just help him to understand the world - but to be a part of it.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, I know that some of you are already mourning the loss of a wonderful celebration |
| 0:04.8 | of talent, training and sheer guts, and it is hard to believe that this series of Morales |
| 0:09.6 | is nearly over, but we still have almost half an hour of numbers and news, so don't |
| 0:14.6 | shed a tear just yet. |
| 0:16.6 | This week, our 20 miles an hour speed limit an unexpected killer. |
| 0:21.0 | TV's Jan Wong returns to answer your final question and will interview Daniel Tamott, |
| 0:26.5 | an author whose mind moves in unusual ways. |
| 0:29.2 | The connections have gone to different parts of the brain that maybe other brains don't |
| 0:34.0 | have. |
| 0:35.0 | I've learnt to find a way of putting feet in both worlds, the world of numbers and the |
| 0:41.3 | world of people. |
| 0:42.8 | The Olympics were supposed to inspire a generation to take up sport, no wonder then that people |
| 0:48.0 | are depressed about the government's record of selling off school playing fields. |
| 0:52.1 | Olympic Legacy, 21 school fields sold off in two years. |
| 0:57.5 | The 30 school playing field sold off by the Coalition. |
| 1:02.2 | Now Wesley Stevenson's here, when we read out a bunch of news paper headlines, I think |
| 1:07.3 | I know what's coming next. |
| 1:08.5 | A lot of figures have been thrown around about the number of playing fields sold off in |
| 1:12.9 | England recently, along with allegations about the effect on our Olympic legacy. |
| 1:17.6 | And today's admission by the government that the numbers actually 30 and not 21 hasn't |
| 1:22.5 | really held either. |
| 1:24.2 | And it's worth saying that these figures need a little bit of context because some of |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

