S16E1 - The Millennium Dome (Part 1)

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...