Home > Entertainment > Channel 4 to realise hidden abilities July 7th, 2011 by Sarah. No comments Channel 4 Specialist Factual Commissioning Editor Tanya Shaw has commissioned Silver River to make a 6 x 60 minute ad-funded series exploring the potentially life-changing latent abilities which may be hidden inside any one of us. Rigorous testing of hundreds of people from all around the country will uncover physical, mental, sensory or creative talents and will be overseen by scientists and academics. From this initial large-scale testing, a number of individuals will be identified as having special talents of which they were totally unaware. They will then be given the opportunity to train and develop these talents to take on extraordinary challenges which might change the rest of their lives. Presenter Richard Bacon uncovers the amazing science which enables these individuals to achieve what others can only dream of and looks at the real world application of these skills as we...