London 2012: How do the Olympics handle religion?

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21. Not 'important' or 'controversial', so much as "tied in with a BBC comedy", I think

This is more of a background piece being used to push the second series of 'Twenty Twelve', a mockumentary about organising the Olympics. It's actually very good, and, with the main story in the first couple of episodes being a row about the multi-faith centre (or whatever they've called it), someone on the BBC website thought they could do a tie-in with what is actually done in that area.

Life imitated art for the first series:

It's always a special joy when real life events mirror TV in ways so startling you feel you've slipped into an episode of The X-Files (or, if you're really out of luck, Paradox). Just hours after BBC Four's Twenty Twelve satirised a defective Olympic countdown clock on Monday night, the real Olympic countdown clock ground to a halt with the kind of comic timing once honed by years of playing the working men's clubs. Humdrum incompetence is made glorious. You almost feel like applauding.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/mar/16/twenty-twelve-olympic-clock