麻豆社

Greg James digs into the 麻豆社 Archive to track down audio gems, using listener requests, overlooked anniversaries and current stories to guide the way.

This week, as the Olympics approach, Greg uncovers an interview with a man who competed at the very first modern Olympic Games in 1896. He took part in shot put and discus, despite never having seen a discus before.

Greg also finds out about the origins of the modern Olympic Games - not in Athens, but in the tiny Shropshire village of Much Wenlock. Anyone for pig racing?

A listener request sends Greg through the dragon鈥檚 eye as he revisits the children鈥檚 literacy programme Look and Read, with great theme tunes and awful special effects.

And 60 years on from her debut solo album, Greg listens to the incomparable voice of Dusty Springfield - not only an icon, with her beehive hair and panda eyes, but a radical too: Greg hears how she refused to play to segregated audiences in South Africa, and was told to leave the country.

Producer: Tim Bano
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