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Hi I'm Peter White and I feel that if I go to any more often I'll qualify for a Beijing bus-pass.

This will be my fourth visit in four years, all because a World Service producer started a radio programme for blind people in Beijing. It was based on In Touch, the programme I present for blind people on Radio 4.

This will be my fourth Paralympics. My first taste of covering the games was in and was something of a disaster; we tried to cover it with four people at a games which was easily the worst organised I've ever been to.

It's got better since then and the broadcasting team has got bigger.

I'm covering the Beijing Paralympics for You and Yours on Radio 4 but what you find at these events is everybody does a bit of everything, so I could well be cropping up on news programmes and even, who knows, on the telly.

I was in Beijing earlier this year and was particularly interested in how the Chinese team proposed to better where they had almost twice as many gold medals as their nearest rivals, .

On a visit to a brand-new Paralympic training centre the answer became clear; and they live where they train for months at a time.

The most intriguing question is can Britain manage to finish second for the third Paralympics in a row?