The London Eye from above
Did you know that at the peak of the working day Britons send more than 5,000 text messages per second? Or that between 7 and 10am every working day, 36 million Britons are on the move commuting to the office or school? Or that the average road user in Britain will spend more than 6 months of their life stuck in traffic jams?
These fascinating facts and a great deal else were revealed in an excellent new series that started last night on BBC Television.
Britain from Above is a fascinating look by Andrew Marr at life in Britain in a way that most of us would never have the chance to see it.
And it’s not just a TV series, but there’s a high quality interactive website which is an integral part of the series.
Here’s Andrew Marr on what excited him about the series:
I highly recommend a visit to the website. And do watch the series on TV, if you can.
Photo by Jason Hawkes © BBC 2008
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As one of the 300 strong audience last Friday evening at the Arts Academy (sitting in the second row) I found it impossible to detect any nervousness or uncertainty on the part of the Wildfire group who performed the brilliant musical narrative – the story of Eduardo Duarte Viera, the first African Bahá’í martyr. It is a story, I would suggest, that few of the audience had heard before. It was moving because it is indeed a tragic story. Moving because of the spiritual blindness of those in his company. Moving because of the boldness and sincerity of the Wildfire group to perform what was obviously a difficult piece of drama involving as it did, piano, violin, song and narrative, with little time for rehearsal and the daunting fact that it was a more serious act than most others on Friday evening which included some great entertainment – dance, singing by the choir, folk songs and some brilliant comedy.
Coming back to earth on Sunday evening I also watched “Britain from Above”. Indeed a very interesting and fascinating BBC TV programme.
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