Big Ben's Chimes

Supporting Content

• Ninety Years of Big Ben's Chimes ringing in the New Year on the BBC

  Ian McMillan has written 7 poems reflecting on the iconic status of the great bell.

  • Read the Radio 4 blog by Producer, Moy McGowan

  

• Find out more about Big Ben on the Parliament UK website

  More about the history and workings of the Great Clock, Great Bell and Quarter Bells.

  • How the Great Clock works
  • The Great Bell and the quarter bells