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World Service,25 Jul 2012,18 mins

Making with Thomas Heatherwick

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. London 2012's Olympic cauldron - a japanese temple in Kyoto or furniture for the global future - Harriett Gilbert visits the designer in his studio and gets there on London's new hop-on-hop-off Heatherwick-conceived bus. Photo of The Rolling Bridge on the Grand Union Canal in Paddington Basin by Steve Speller.

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