July 2012
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London 2212
olympicopeningceremony: Two hundred years from today, a master bell-maker will set out from Whitechapel, with instructions to retune the great Olympic Bell. The bell-maker has never seen the bell, but she knows it will still be there. There are some objects that history tiptoes round, and leaves undisturbed, rocks in the river of change. The bell-maker will stroll through leafy London. The mad...
Jul 28th
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Straight On
olympicopeningceremony: Second to the right, and straight on till morning. Peter Pan, JM Barry. Almost all the volunteer dancers in this segment work for the National Health Service. They include doctors, pharmacists, managers, nurses, radiographers, midwives and social workers. The National Health Service is the institution which more than any other unites our nation. It was founded just after...
Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 5th
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June 2012
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Jun 30th
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