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HILARY POWELL

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Multistory

As BBC White City was demolished and redeveloped 8 commissions took place in its East Tower –due for imminent removal. The project ‘Multistory’ took inspiration from the tower’s history as home to BBC children’s television and staged one last epic story for the towers demise. Taking the format of Jackanory as a starting point, a lone celebrity reading a famous story was replaced by locally recruited people from 6 to 80 invited in to sit in an armchair and read from Ted Hughes’ ‘Iron Man’ – a staple text of Jackanory and a tale of destruction and renewal.  As people read children from White City Adventure Playground took pleasure in destroying the building around them.

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