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Part 4 of the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome.

The millenium is here and the dome is finally open. But it's safe to say the illfated project has not gone well as visitor numbers are poor and multiple financial bailouts are required.

And soon news of an audacious diamon heist reaches Scotland Yard...

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Part 3 of the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome.

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Joining me today to discuss the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome, is comedian Matthew Crosby

Coming up in part 2 - debates and disagreements on the proposed site of structure, and we discuss some of the failed other pitches for the project…

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Joining me today to discuss the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome, is comedian Matthew Crosby

At the end of the twentieth century on the banks of the River Thames, an extraordinary structure rose from the rubble of an old industrial wasteland… The Millennium Dome.

Born under the Conservatives…

Embraced by Tony Blair's New Labour…

Promoted as a spectacular symbol of a new Britain...

But almost from the beginning, the Dome became a political battleground…

The headlines were merciless.

Was this Britain's great celebration of the future?

Or an expensive political vanity project?

When the doors opened on New Year's Eve 1999, there were crowds, confusion and huge queues.

Millions visited. Some loved it. Others hated it.

And when the Dome finally closed, critics seemed to have their white elephant.

But the story wasn't over…

The ensuing years included huge dance music parties. Diamond heists. And eventually the Dome was reborn and became one of Europe's iconic entertainment destinations.

So what really happened?

Was it a political triumph?

A spectacular failure?

A vision simply ahead of its time?

Or a combination of all of the above and so much more?

This is the story of the most infamous new building in our lifetime - this is the rise and fall and rise again of The Millennium Dome.

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Still to come in part 3 is the aftermath of the tiger attack - including conspiracy theories, lawsuits, and countless controversies as the legendary duo's dominance of the Las Vegas entertainment landscape comes to an end.

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Welcome back to part 2… Coming up in this part we've got tiger attacks, lawsuits and conspiracy theories as the Siegfried and Roy juggernaut starts to derail at the height of their fame. But we kick things off with famous magic mistakes from history.

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Las Vegas - 1967…

Two young men from Germany, united by a love of magic, spectacle and one extraordinary obsession, arrive in Nevada with almost nothing to their name…

Siegfried and Roy - two showmen that were set to define magic and spectacle for the next five decades…

Every evening they transformed the impossible into entertainment...

Tigers appeared from nowhere.

White lions prowled across the stage.

And night after night, millions watched as two illusionists became global superstars.

But behind the sequins, the headlines and the roaring crowds was a story of ambition, friendship and betrayal.

How did two outsiders build one of the most spectacular and highest earning acts in entertainment history?

Then, in 2003, everything changed.

During a performance at the Mirage, Roy was viciously attacked by one of the show's beloved white tigers. The world watched in shock...

What followed became another chapter in a story that had already defied belief. More unbelievable than their show itself.

Two men.

A lifetime of dreams.

The biggest stage in the world.

And the fine line between illusion and reality.

This is the extraordinary story of Siegfried and Roy.

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Welcome back to part 4 of the story of Mary Whitehouse, Video Nasties and the Censorship debate… the controversy surrounding the film 'Natural Born Killers' (1994)

And an amusing case of the BBFC getting some payback...

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Welcome back to part 3 of the story of Mary Whitehouse, Video Nasties and the Censorship debate… in this episode we discuss infamous video nasties titles such as Cannibal Holocaust and I Spit on your grave. And the contoversial work of literature (at the time at least) Laddy Chatterley's Lover.

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Coming up in part 2 we discuss the formation of the BBFC (that’s the British Board of film classification to you and I) the birth of VHS…

And the Video Nasties craze hits boiling point as infamous titles such as ‘Driller Killer’, The Evil Dead and Cannibal Holocaust cause public outrage!

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