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R4Choice: The Bell Boys 06 Nov 09

R4Choice: The Bell Boys 06 Nov 09

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DATE : Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000
Entered in Database : 2009-11-06 16:00:00
length : 13797969
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In the heart of London's East End, a team of craftsmen preserves a set of skills dating back to the 1500s, turning out bells for churches and cathedrals across Britain and around the world. Poet and closet campanologist Ian McMillan spends a day among Whitechapel's foundrymen, and follows the birth of a new ring of bells set to bring back life to a church tower which has stood silent since the Second World War.

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