Danny Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony: madcap, surreal and moving

Inventive effort to tell a thousand small stories in event expected to be watched by 1 billion people worldwideFrom a bucolic green and pleasant land via the belching chimney stacks of the Industrial Revolution to the internet age, Danny Boyle's attempt to define Britishness in the opening hour of his Olympic opening ceremony was a madcap, surreal, moving and often confounding affair.An "industrial parade" of Jarrow marchers and colliery bands, hundreds of dancing nurses accompanied by Mike Oldf...

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