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One to One: Learning A Skill: Kieran Yates speaks to Yewande Adesida

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Learning A Skill: Kieran Yates speaks to Yewande Adesida

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When you can't do something, how hard is it to learn something new as an adult?

Journalist Kieran Yates explores how we can pick up new skills as adults.

Like much of the country, the last year has seen people picking up new skills to pass the time, from cooking, yoga or becoming knitting experts. But what about the small things that many people have learned before adulthood? In this set of programmes, journalist Kieran Yates explores how adopting seemingly simple skills in later life - that maybe we missed out on learning when we were younger, or that we have to face now - can lead to radical changes in our well-being. 

In this programme she speaks to Yewande Adesida, a cyclist who, in her twenties, decided to switch from her career as a competitive rower to a racing track cyclist. Kieran meets Yewande at Herne Hill velodrome and asks her just how much getting on a bike as an adult opened up the world for her, and as somebody who can't ride a bike herself, sees if Yewande can help get her pedalling.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Caitlin Hobbs

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