The London Olympics were won on a promise to radically transform the economic landscape of east London. A life-changing programme would see 70,000 unemployed Londoners into work, with thousands of new jobs created in the Olympic Park and the Lower Lea Valley.
Six years after the Olympic bid was won, Hugh Muir finds out if we are close to this this ambitious target, or whether the legacy has been thrown away. He visits the Olympic Park site to meet construction workers and Lorraine Martins from the Olympic Development Agency. He also travels to nearby Canning Town to meet unemployed residents to ask their views.
Back in the studio, Hugh is joined by Guardian writer and London blogger Dave Hill, Director of London 2012 at the Greater London authority Neale Coleman, and Liberal Democrat London assembly member Dee Doocey to discuss the employment legacy.
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