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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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0:00.0 | Fever tree Mediterranean tonic water, made with zesty lemon time from a small family farm in |
0:07.8 | province and essential oils from herbs that grow in the Mediterranean sunshine. |
0:13.4 | So if three quarters of your g and tea is a fever tree tonic, |
0:18.8 | maybe it's time to call it |
0:20.8 | a T and G. |
0:22.4 | Fever tree, mix with the best. |
0:27.2 | Ooh that takes me straight to the med. |
0:31.2 | It's Tuesday November the 14th, 1899, just before daybreak in London. |
0:40.6 | We're in Parliament Square beneath the great Gothic edifice of the Palace of Westminster. |
0:47.0 | It's cold, quiet. |
0:51.0 | In the gloom by the roadside stands a brand new structure. |
0:55.0 | It's covered in a top hall in, prepped for its unveiling. |
1:00.0 | At 22 feet high, it's impressive, or so we've been told. |
1:06.0 | Controversy surrounds it. |
1:08.8 | The details of today's big reveal have been kept rather vague, the better to avoid a scene. |
1:18.6 | In the half light a workman checks his pocket watch. He climbs a ladder and cuts a rope. As Big Ben strikes seven, the covering falls. |
1:29.5 | voila, he announces to his audience, just a lone police constable and a passing newspaper boy. |
1:39.3 | The statue is cast in bronze and set atop a massive granite plinth. |
1:44.0 | It's of a stern looking fellow, long hair touching his shoulders, |
1:49.0 | clad in a leather jerkin and thigh-high riding boots. His right hand rests on the hilt of his sword, |
1:57.0 | his left clutches a Bible. There's a simple inscription, just the years of his lifespan, 1599 to 1658, and his unadorned |
2:10.1 | name, Oliver Cromwell. |
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