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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties
Description: From the kit for athletes to interviews which tell us the impact of race times changing – Islam Issa hears about an oral history project in Scotland which aims to capture experiences of past Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Another project explores the commercial and business links between commonwealth countries and what attempts to build connections tell us about and sharing units of measurement, currencies and the impact of EEC membership. New Generation Thinker Islam Issa talks to two researchers: Christopher Cassidy is a researcher based at Stirling University working on the Commonwealth Games Archive in Sc...