Main content

Italy’s revolutionary basketball team

Coach Massimo Antonelli set up youth team Tam Tam in a mafia-riddled town in Italy, and blazed a trail for 'foreign' kids in sport.

Coach Massimo Antonelli set up youth team 'Tam Tam' in Castel Volturno, a town in the South of Italy which is home to thousands of migrants, and plagued by criminal gangs. His players soon caught the basketball bug, dunking and dribbling themselves into great competitors. But when he went to sign up one of his squads to a regional championship, a limit on players deemed to be 'foreign' threatened to dash their hoop dreams forever. So, Massimo and his team started a campaign, eventually managing to get themselves back on the court, and driving a new law that transformed children’s access to sport in Italy forever.

Outlook reporter Gaia Caramazza discovers the 'other life' of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's first violinst, William Tan. He's also an award-winning underwater photographer whose fascination with fish began as a child, staring at the life swimming around inside his uncle's aquariums. He was inspired by a particularly courageous fish and that's led to some amazing marine adventures.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar.
Producers: Deiniol Buxton, Olivia Lynch-Kelly and Gaia Caramazza.

Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com

(Photo: Basketball coach Massimo Antonelli and one of Tam Tam's players dunking a ball through a hoop on their court in Castel Volturno, Italy. Credit: Giovanni Izzo)

Available now

41 minutes

Last on

Tue 7 Mar 2023 03:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Mon 6 Mar 2023 12:06GMT
  • Mon 6 Mar 2023 18:06GMT
  • Mon 6 Mar 2023 23:06GMT
  • Tue 7 Mar 2023 00:06GMT
  • Tue 7 Mar 2023 03:06GMT

Contact Outlook

Contact Outlook

Info on how we might use your contribution on air

Podcast: Lives Less Ordinary

Podcast: Lives Less Ordinary

Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected