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THE FO:REM : IAIN SINCLAIR & ANNA MINTON : OLYMPIC SPECIAL

THE FO:REM : IAIN SINCLAIR & ANNA MINTON : OLYMPIC SPECIAL 7PM, WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY 2012 SHOREDITCH HOUSE The legendary Secret Garden Party & Wilderness festivals bring the fo:rem to London for the first time, and take square aim at The Games with Olympic arch-critic Iain Sinclair in conversation with agenda-setting journalist and author Anna [...]

Ghosts of Future London, at the Stoke Newington Bookshop

 

 

 

‘Ghosts of Future London’

01/09/2011 20:00

Iain Sinclair, Sebastian Groes and Maureen Duffy in conversation 

                                                 Sinclair, Duffy and Groes will be discussing how we can use London’s history, myths and fictions to understand the city’s present condition, but also its future. With the major, irrevocable changes made to the city’s landscape by [...]

A little Olympic film for BBC2 Newsnight is supposed to go out tonight.

Then, with a year to go until the 2012 Olympics, Peter Marshall visits the Olympic Park in east London to find out if pledges that were made to win the event – including leaving behind a lasting physical legacy and inspiring two million people to take up sport and physical activity – will be fulfilled.

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Let the games begin

From the Guardian:

It’s a year to the start of the 2012 Olympics. Iain Sinclair, writer and arch critic of the project, takes on Labour’s Tessa Jowell who played a key role in the London bid

Interview by Susanna Rustin Friday 22 July 2011 20.30 BST

Link to the article

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London’s Olympic Park – a future ruin?

Three years ago – with the Beijing Olympics about to start – Evan Davis went for a walk around the 2012 Olympic site with author Iain Sinclair, who was apprehensive and sceptical about the London project.

Now – with the games just a year away – the presenter of BBC Radio 4′s Today programme returned to east [...]