Great Expectations Part 3

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2010

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It is two years to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games and the residents of a council estate nearby have been watching the venues take shape for a while now. One of the pledges when London won the 2012 bid to host the Olympics was that the East End - the socially deprived area of the city - would be lifted out of its poverty. Is the regeneration of the area affecting those it was supposed to target?

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:03.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use
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0:14.0	Now our documentary great expectations.
0:17.0	In the first of two programmes, Nina Robinson revisits
0:20.0	residents of an inner city housing estate in East London,
0:24.0	located next to the 2012 Olympic Park.
0:28.0	On your marks, get set, go!
0:36.0	So they're running down the racetrack,
0:39.0	Hilary and her son, Calvin, aged eight.
0:44.0	Hilary Wilgris and her son are running
0:46.0	in the 2012 Olympic Stadium.
0:49.0	I quite much of myself though.
0:51.0	Yeah, he did well there, Hilary.
0:53.0	Are you still going to the gym and doing your classes?
0:56.0	Oh, yeah.
0:57.0	It's my circuit training.
0:59.0	So we're actually in the area where the athletes
1:02.0	are going to be in two years' time.
1:04.0	This is quite exciting, isn't it?
1:05.0	It is quite exciting.
1:06.0	I was just saying to my son, this is where it's all going to be.
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