Boooooooong! Big Ben is our Wonder of the World
Wonders of the World on The Hard Shoulder
English - August 23, 2019 17:19 - 10 minutes - 642 BytesArts Education radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Danielle O'Donovan introduces her penultimate Wonder of the World, our mini-series exploring great architectural buildings around the globe.
This week, she told the story behind Big Ben, Westminster and the Houses of Parliament from the mid-nineteenth century, when a political hot potato was tossed between the two sides of the house as they seek an architect for their new parliament.