With just two years remaining until London’s Olympic & Paralympic Games start, the search for volunteers with language skills has begun.
Presenter Chris Ledgard meets Seb Coe, Boris Johnson and LOCOG chief executive Paul Deighton to hear about the two schemes – Games Makers and Ambassadors for London. "You don’t need a degree in Mandarin" says Boris Johnson, but what language skills are required ? Chris also talks to gold medal winner Sally Gunnell about the need for translators in previous games, and also to Professor Joe Lo Bianco in Australia.
Listen to the Word of Mouth Olympics & language skills programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz.