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What Went Wrong with the Olympics?

What Went Wrong with the Olympics?: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - What Went Wrong with the Olympics?, Episode 1

Spoof documentary set in 2014, looking back at the fiasco that WAS the London Olympics.

Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, starring Kevin Eldon. Hard-hitting, macho, spoof documentary set in 2014, exploring the fiasco that WAS the London Olympics.

Spoof documentary set in 2014, looking back at the fiasco that WAS the London Olympics, by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman.

The preparation for the London Olympics is a huge and very funny developing story. Eleven thousand people are now employed on the Olympic site to ensure everything is in place, on time. One and a half million tons of East End soil have been washed. Lorries, arriving on site at the rate of one per minute, are subjected to the same rigorous timetabling that applies at Heathrow Airport. Visitors undergo extensive security checks and are issued with a list of over sixty prohibited items (amongst them, animal stunners, ice picks and blowtorches). 

It's an exciting race against time; the most important race of all being the one to get a memorable Olympic programme on air. This 4x 30 minutes documentary series is all fired up and ready to go. On your marks.

Introduced from the standpoint of 2014 by controversial reporter Sylvester Halloran (Kevin Eldon), 'What Went Wrong With The Olympics?' combines contemporary news reports, archive footage, stupid "audio graphics", live interviews and fisticuffs in the studio with the key figures responsible. We sift through the cock-ups and the conspiracies in a tough and revealing probe into the reality of what makes Britain run - not very fast. 

Starring Kevin Eldon (Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Harry & Paul, The I.T.Crowd, Big Train), the cast also features Vicky Pepperdine (Getting On), Adrian Scarborough (Psychoville, Gavin & Stacey), Lewis MacLeod (Dead Ringers, The Life Of Hattie Jacques, Harry & Paul) and the real Brian Perkins.


Cast:
Sylvester Halloran ..... Kevin Eldon 
Toby Morrison ..... Adrian Scarborough
Lloyd Waterhouse ..... Dan Tetsell
Caroline Grant ..... Vicki Pepperdine

Writers Ian Hislop (Have I Got News For You) & Nick Newman (Dave Podmore) are the writing team behind News At Bedtime, Murder Most Horrid and My Dad's The Prime Minister. 


Producer: Lucy Armitage
A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4.

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