now listen online, courtesy of BBC Radio Four…
‘Bong! The Condensed History of Big Ben’
In honour of Big Ben’s one hundred and fiftieth birthday, Adam Long, Simon Jermond, and Giles Terera blast through everything you ever needed to know about the great bell, clock, and tower. Produced by the magnificent duo of Mandy Baker and Leala Padmanabhan. WARNING: This programme includes a musical tribute to Big Ben’s double three-legged gravity escapement mechanism.
