How to Watch the Olympics

Update: 2012-06-25

Description

Contributor(s): David Goldblatt | Seventeen days, 12,000 athletes, 29 sports, 302 gold medals: this event will be your personal trainer for the back stories and culture of the modern Olympics. David Goldblatt is a writer, broadcaster and teacher. He is author of The Ball is Round: a global history of football and, with Johnny Acton, How to Watch the Olympics. Simon Glendinning is a reader in European philosophy in the European Institute, LSE and director of the Forum for European Philosophy.

Comments

In Channel

Can the next US President make America 'great' again?

2012-08-0201:24:14

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

2012-07-3001:17:51

Britain should stay in the European Union

2012-07-2401:27:35

A Conversation with President Bill Clinton

2012-07-1101:31:43

Family Planning: Why Do We Need a London Summit?

2012-07-1001:28:19

Great Powers and the State of the Global Economy

2012-07-1001:10:16

Iran: The Next War in the Middle East?

2012-07-0501:35:33

How Much is Enough? Work, Money and the Good Life

2012-07-0401:30:41

Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet

2012-07-0301:23:39

The Price of Inequality

2012-06-2901:31:50

Creating a Learning Society

2012-06-2801:29:56

Ending the Housing Crisis: Should we ever build on the Green Belt?

2012-06-2701:27:35

Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth

2012-06-2601:18:16

How to Watch the Olympics

2012-06-2501:29:00

Winner Take All: The Race for the World's Resources

2012-06-2501:24:42

A Capitalism for the People

2012-06-2101:25:25

Resisting intolerance: an ethical and global challenge

2012-06-2056:43

Philosophy and European Union

2012-06-1901:26:01

The Big Society Debate: a new agenda for social welfare?

2012-06-1901:16:41

The Rule of Law

2012-06-1959:40

00:00

1.0x

#box-pro-ellipsis-176477655638449{-webkit-line-clamp:2;}How to Watch the Olympics

How to Watch the Olympics

David Goldblatt

How to Watch the Olympics