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David Quantick with everything you need to know about music in easily digestible chunks

David Quantick presents everything you need to know about music in easily digestible small chunks

Blaggers Guide: The Blagger's Guide to the Games

Blaggers Guide: The Blagger's Guide to the Games: Episode 2

Sport: Olympics

Episode 2

The Blagger's Guide to the Games

BBC Radio 2 - Blaggers Guide, The Blagger's Guide to the Games, Episode 2

An irreverent look at the 1980 Olympics, British etiquette and the Olympic flame.

David Quantick turns an irreverent eye to the joys of British etiquette and the delights of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and he sheds some light on the Olympic Flame.

David Quantick's wonderfully irreverent series returns to Radio 2 to give the 2012 Games the full Blagger's treatment. 

In this second instalment, David explains the joys of British etiquette, the delights of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and he sheds some light on the Olympic Flame.

Have your sweatbands at the ready, because David will be leading you down the athletics track at record speed and revealing everything you need to know about The Olympics, from 1896 to the present day. 

With spoof advertisements, movie trailers, sketches and quick fire gags, this Blagger's Guide will leave you armed with a knowledge base worthy of a podium finish; or some excellent ammunition for the next pub quiz.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

David Quantick's irreverent series returns to give the Games the full Blagger's treatment

David Quantick's wonderfully irreverent series returns to give the 2012 Games the full Blagger's treatment

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