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How will the British Olympic team fare in 776BC?

How will the British Olympic team fare in 776BC? Recreation of the wireless archives with Patrick McNamara. From October 2002.

"Welcome back, and the roads are jammed with gods flying into Olympia..."

The time's just coming up to 776BC, and it's all aboard the Canker Cart with DJ Suzanne Canker for the first Olympic Games in Greekland with the British Athletics team. 

More extraordinary archive radio recordings from the past two millennia of the wireless.

Written and performed by:

Claire Downes
Hazel Grian
Al Holloway
Ben Kozo
Stuart Lane
Patrick McNamara

Producer: Sean Grundy

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002.

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