July 28-August 3: Including Olympics Opening Ceremony and The Zoo

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28th July, 2012

SATURDAY JULY 28 Olympics Opening Ceremony (Prime, 7.00am, and Sky Sport 4, Sky 131, 8.00am). Fun facts about the Olympics Opening Ceremony: its title is Isles of Wonder, which comes from a speech in The Tempest. The ceremony's artistic brain is Dnny Boyle, the director of such films as Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire. Details of the ceremony unveiled by Boyle so far include a green and pleasant land with giant maypoles, a village cricket team, horses, chickens, sheep, a model of Glastonbury Tor and the world's largest harmonically tuned bell. ...

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