Coming of age as a queen of the skatepark

Life Matters - Separate stories podcast

Skateboarding is as much a culture as it a sport, and the outlines of that culture change as new generations pick up a deck and begin to make their mark.

But when the sport was added to the Tokyo Olympics back in 2020, it opened up a new layers of competition, and introduced the sport to a much wider audience.

Eliza Cox and Charlotte Heath discuss the new documentary, Queens of Concrete, which follows three young girls as they train and compete to qualify for those Olympic Games and, perhaps more importantly, as they begin to figure out who they are on and off the skateboard.