Sunday Feature: An Olympick Vision

Ed Smith tells the story of the birth of the modern Olympics: the games held by Captain Robert Dover near the Cotswold town of Chipping Campden in 1612. Ed is joined by former Olympic sprinter and historian Peter Radford, questioning why Dover's name is only the merest footnote in the modern Olympic story. He also considers why was it that Britain should nurture both the ideas and events that took place every year on Kingcombe Plain, later to be renamed Dover's Hill?