2012 Olympics Logo
In June 2007 Simon Lederman was interviewed and credited on the Jeremy Vine programme on BBC Radio 2 and also in the BBC's internal staff magazine Ariel for breaking the story that the London 2012 animated Olympics logo caused Epileptic attacks in some individuals.
Lederman told Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2:
"I met a man called Christopher Filmer one morning in Sutton whilst working on another BBC project. Chris told me his girlfriend was in a nearby hospital after watching the news the previous evening. It was the previous evening that the animated Olympics logo had been unveiled. I checked out the possibility of a connection between the two events with the hospital and with Epilepsy Action and had Mayor Of London Ken Livingstone live in the studio on my Drivetime programme on BBC London 94.9 later that afternoon.
"I called Christopher that night and thanked him for being so open and I said his story would be on the front page of every newspaper the following day."
Ken Livingstone said: "The 2012 video is a catastrophic mistake, the firm which made the film should not be paid a penny. Who would go to a firm like that again to ask them to do that work?"
The story was featured prominently on most national front pages the following day:
BBC News The Guardian
Daily Mail Reuters
The Independent
Daily Mirror
The Sun
The Daily Telegraph
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