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OLYMPIANS, businessmen and politicians will discuss the forthcoming 2012 games in a national radio show being broadcast from Weymouth next week.
BBC Radio Five Live will be broadcasting a show called 2012: On Your Marks' on Monday, July 7, from 7.10pm to 8.30pm from the town Pavilion's Green Room.
Talking to correspondent Rob Walker will be Olympic windsurfer Nick Dempsey and Olympic Yngling sailor Sarah Ayton as well as Roy Haywood, managing director of Portland's Southwell Business Park and Gary Fooks, Team Dorset 2012's legacy manager.
The show will include contributions from former athlete and politician Sebastian Coe and Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell, who will be in London with host Brian Alexander.
Howard Legg, Weymouth and Portland Borough Council's spokesman for special projects, welcomed the broadcast as a chance to show how the borough is embracing its Olympic future.
He said: "The programme will be trying to ascertain whether the country is ready for the Olympics and what people are doing to embrace the games.
"There will also be some tougher questions to answer, like: Are costs spiralling out of control?' and Are the games going to be for London or for the whole of Britain?'
"I think we've been chosen as the place to broadcast this show from because we're being seen as having a can do' attitude when it comes to 2012.
"We have the vision to drive the area and its Olympic vision forward."
He added: "We see the opportunity of hosting the sailing events for 2012 as an amazing accolade for this area.
"It's also very apt for them to be here now in time for the Spirit of the Sea festival.
"We're the only Olympic venue outside London to be holding an entire discipline and the area has appointed a legacy manager to drive things forward. I think people can see that we're not waiting for the firing gun to go - we're already going."
Team Dorset 2012's legacy manager, Gary Fooks, said: "This broadcast will be a really good opportunity to put Weymouth and Portland on the national map and celebrate what we're achieving down here."
10:26am Saturday 5th July 2008
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