Magic Roundabout (Swindon) Magic Roundabout (Swindon) The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, was constructed in 1972 and is a ring junction consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged around a sixth central, anticlockwise roundabout. Located near the County Ground, home of Swindon Town F.C., its name comes from the popular children's television series "The Magic Roundabout". In 2009 it was voted the fourth scariest junction in Britain. The roundabout was constructed according to the design of Frank Blackmore, of the British Transport and Road Research Laboratory. Traffic flow around the larger, inner roundabout is counterclockwise, and traffic flows in the usual clockwise manner around the
Britain in a Day follow up to the 2011 documentary film "Life in a Day", the film was similarly executive produced by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald. The film was directed by Morgan Matthews. Britain in a Day Britain in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film that consists of a series clips of footage shot by members of the public in Britain on 12 November 2011. Scott Free Films and the BBC produced the film, which was made in conjunction with YouTube. The film is 90 minutes long and includes shots from 314 different perspectives out of the 11,526 submitted onto the video