EXCLUSIVE: Richard Bacon wants to cognize nan concealed of success.
The British presenter and shaper will beforehand an ongoing video podcast bid titled Why Are You More Successful Than Me? successful which he probes taste powerhouses, broadcasters, writers, athletes, CEOs and imaginative who person achieved bonzer things.
Launching today, nan first section bid will characteristic ex-footballer and broadcaster Gary Lineker, followed by character and head Dexter Fletcher and novelist Elizabeth Day successful eps 2 and 3. Journalist and broadcaster Emma Barnett, writer Lynda La Plante, screenwriter Chris Chibnall, skincare master Caroline Hirons, comedian and presenter Chris McCausland, drama TV shaper Ash Atalla and rockstar Miles Kane will look later successful nan run.
The bid sees erstwhile Blue Peter, Big Breakfast and Good Morning Britain presenter Bacon returning to his broadcasting roots arsenic interviewer. He has spent overmuch of his caller profession processing TV formats done his Yes Yes Media imprint, which will nutrient Why Are You More Successful Than Me?.
The candid conversations will spot Bacon research nan habits, psychology, advantages, failures and turning points that style awesome accomplishment of those he believes are much successful than him. He will effort to unlock what has led to his guest’s success, beryllium that money, freedom, recognition, impact, information aliases thing harder to define.
“I’ve missed interviewing,” said Bacon. “I’ve missed sitting down pinch group I’m genuinely willing in, group who are driven, who’ve built things, who’ve taken risks, and really uncovering retired what makes them tick. Success fascinates america all. I want to understand what it really is, and really it really happens.”
Bacon has surely been engaged chasing his ain success, and past twelvemonth we revealed news of 2 formats from Yes Yes Media. Firstly, location was a BBC pilot for The Easiest Quiz Show successful nan World fronted by podcast impermanent McCausland and secondly Who’s successful nan Band, a euphony talent hunt successful improvement for ABC that counts Simon Cowell among its judges.
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