Magic Roundabout (Swindon) roundabout used to be County Islands, but it was changed in the late 1980s to match its popular name. It inspired the song "English Roundabout", a pop song by the Swindon band XTC, which was recorded for their 1982 album "English Settlement". In 2005, it was voted the worst roundabout in a survey of the general public by a UK insurance company. In September 2007, the Magic Roundabout was named as one of the world's worst junctions by a UK motoring magazine. In December 2007, "BBC News" reported a survey identifying The Magic Roundabout as one of the "10 Scariest
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