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31/05/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Condensed History of Big Ben.
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.
Including The Condensed History of Big Ben:
The Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster is celebrating 150 years of almost continuous time telling. To mark the occasion Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and his two friends Simon Jermond and Giles Terera take a whirlwind musical tour of all things Ben.
It's a story of arduous neo-Gothic design, bells that kept cracking and the invention of something called a double three-legged gravity escapement mechanism.
So join Adam for a quirky look back at a century and a half of faithful ticking.
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Sun 31 May 2009
22:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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