Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) a New Town the roads met in a simple junction which was then replaced by a standard roundabout. Constructed in 1973, the "Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead was voted the UK's second-worst roundabout in a 2005 poll held by an insurance company (the winner being its Swindon counterpart). In 2011 the roundabout was voted the best in Britain by motorists in a competition organised by a car leasing service. The original magic roundabout had six exits in total, with the British Petroleum building spanning "Marlowes", the road leading to the town centre, in the approximate position of the earlier railway
In the First Circle Solzhenitsyn's complete works. Excerpts from the full 96 chapter version were published in English by "The New Yorker" and in "The Solzhenitsyn Reader". An English translation of the full version was published by Harper Perennial in October 2009, entitled "In the First Circle" rather than "The First Circle". The Polish director Aleksander Ford made an English language film based on the novel in 1973, "The First Circle". While it adhered closely to Solzhenitsyn's plot, the film was a critical and commercial failure. The 1992 TV movie based on the novel, "The First Circle", won Canada's Gemini Award for Best Photography