A week on Friday, the world's gaze will fall upon Stratford, where 15,000 performers will be dancing and singing slightly out of time, in a bizarre, multi-million-dollar pantomime that will commence Britain's hosting of the Olympics.
It will rain, roads will grind to a halt, there will be huge queues staffed by soldiers who are more used to searching for IEDs than rummaging through handbags full of hankies and Murray Mints; but everyone will grin and bear it, newspapers will effuse about the "old, wartime spirit of the East End" and the Olympics will be grudgingly declared a success.
We made a film about London's preparation for the Games. As well as hearing about the fleets of alien ships that will appear in the skies over East London over the next fortnight, we met local residents who have been evicted to make room for the Olympics, criminals who will be stealing from the crowds of tourists this summer and eccentrics like Tom Clare, who set off from Olympia to Morris Dance all the way to London.If you'd like to know more about the world's biggest sporting event, see the trailer above and the film itself from Wednesday, the 25th July.