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The BBC's International Radio Streams During the Olympics
Mark Friend
Controller
UPDATE (29 July): After discussion, the IOC and the BBC have agreed that there is no need to block our international streams of Radio 4 programmes with a wide news agenda. Radio 5 Live (apart from the news programme Up All Night) and 5 Live Olympics Extra will remain available only in the UK. ...
New on Radio 4: Sport and the British
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Fanny Blankers-Koen, far right, of the Netherlands finishes first in the Women's 100m during the XIV Olympic Games Circa August of 1948 in London Clare Balding's new 30 part series on sport in Britain starts today at 1.45pm on BBC Radio 4 after the World at One. The first part looks at t...
Got a question for Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell?
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Paul Scoins, who works on You & Yours, emailed me: "I wondered if this might be worth flagging up... We've got Tessa Jowell on today to take calls on people's views on the 2012 Olympic legacy." The programme looks like this: First half: Are you still as enthusiastic about the Games as you w...
Peter White's week
Peter White
Chief Executive, Switchover Help Scheme
One of my delights over the past few years has been following the so-called 'children of the Olympic bid'. If you've missed it let me fill you in. These are the youngsters who back in 2005 played a key but little known role in snatching the games for London from under the Parisian nose. Aged be...
