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Hello, this is the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service, with me,

Josephine McDermott. Today we're going back to the 27th of July 2012 and a

spectacle watched by an estimated 900 million people around the world. It is

often said to be one of the best moments from the Olympic Games opening

ceremony. I'm Frank Ocho-Boys, I'm a writer and I'm very proud to say that I was

part of the team that created the moment when the Queen jumped out of the

helicopter. It's 2011 and Frank and the film director Danny Boyle have a

washing line hanging up in their office. On it they've pegged different

ideas, but what will happen in the ceremony to kick off the 2012 Games in

London? We had a designer called Mark Tillsley, who is a brilliant brilliant

designer and quite early on, he bought in a fully storyboarded idea about how

the Queen would arrive by jumping out of a helicopter. And we all said, that's

brilliant, but it's never going to happen. But put it up on the washing line

anyway so that we know that we've got to think of something better. And as the

months went by, of course, we couldn't think of anything better. And then by

a year out we got a producer on board, Tracy C. Wood, and she said, what's

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