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The Games

By: John Clarke, Ross Stevenson
Narrated by: full cast
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John Clarke's award-winning satire, centred on the Sydney Organising Committee of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.

Possibly not sanctioned by the official international Olympic Committee, The Games is the ground-breaking deadpan comedy that took a satirical look at the organisational triumph which produced the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Documentary cameras were given carte blanche access to the offices of top-flight bureaucrats as they negotiated their way through complex issues, PR disasters, budget blowouts, political interference and 100-metre running tracks that were not strictly accurate in terms of length.

Episodes include: 'The 100 Metres Track', 'New Technology and Y2k', 'J'Accuse', 'Land Claim', 'Inquiry', 'Strike', 'Immigration' and 'Solar and the End'.

A ratings sensation, winner of the Logie for Most Outstanding Comedy programme and an AFI Award for Best Screenplay, The Games stars John Clarke, Gina Riley, Bryan Dawe and Nicholas Bell.

©1998 John Clarke & Ross Stevenson (P)2017 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Witty Funny
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Absolutely excellent Australian series mockumentary about the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games by comic greats. Sadly, this is only a small fraction of the series, the episodes are taken outside of the complete series timeline and some episodes are incomplete. While the 100 metres track is still one my favourite pieces of content, there is at least 15 minutes of that episode that isn't there.
This is still with a listen, but there is a raft more content to listen to in the whole package and I only wish this were the complete series.

Fantastic series but this is incomplete

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Works well as an audio book, in a similar way to Yes Minister - where the conversation carries the production.

All about the conversation

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