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Big Ben's Bongs were first heard on 91福利社 Radio on 17th February 1924.

Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and his two friends Simon Jermond and Giles Terera, celebrate the Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster and takes a whirlwind musical tour of all things Ben.

It is a story of arduous neo-Gothic design, bells that kept cracking and the invention of something called a double three-legged gravity escapement mechanism.

Originally broadcast to celebrate 150 years of almost continuous time telling by Big Ben.

Producers: Mandy Baker & Giles Terera

First broadcast on 91福利社 Radio 4 in June 2009.