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Barry Cryer (”The man who first showed Lord Reith where the photocopier was”) made an appearance on Radio 4’s The Now Show on Friday. After being funny for a few minutes, he recited a poem, with ‘Chariots of Fire’ (or a pastiche thereof) playing in the background:

Speed onward bright Olympic torch
Your flames may flicker but they scorch
your progress and illuminate
the cause we truly celebrate.

The people’s voice they loudly sing
a message: can you hear, Beijing?
We doubt you hear or even care.
The echoes from Tianemen Square
ring out. These are the real Olympic rings
you hear as each proud city sings.

So Gordon Brown stop pondering, posing.
There are two options: opening, closing.
Go to neither. A simple task.
Is this in truth too much to ask?
And so evade our withering scorn
Or were you to the manner, dithering, born?

Come join us on our chariot of fire.
Care of The Now Show; Barry Cryer

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