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
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