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Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire
An important question for our understanding of Roman history is how the Empire’s economy was structured, and how long-distance trading within and between its provinces was organised and achieved. More...
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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:
TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...
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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]
TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created.
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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...
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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash.
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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?
TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns
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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...
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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?
TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats
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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?
TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them
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[we see one of the boats is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.
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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.
[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING
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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone
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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!
[They all leave the museum]
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Title:
GRINDSET 1993
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[The following is an Eddie Vedder-like GRUNGE ROCK GUY from 1993, but he’s doing a modern, grindsetty, LinkedIn-lunatic-style diary]
5am:
Sleep is for wimps - I get up at 4am and have a two hour session of Avoiding Selling Out.
[Show him sitting up in bed, staring intensely ahead and going HURRRR]
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9am:
I'm layering the moment the thrift store opens - ten minutes late is for losers.
[Show him putting plaid shirts over other shirts first thing in the morning in a charity shop]
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10am:
I'm *always on* - every interaction is a business opportunity.
[He's walking down the street and an OLD LADY approaches, gesturing to her little dog who is poking its head out of a roadside ditch]
OLD LADY:
Excuse me -
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OLD LADY:
Please can you help me pull my dog out of this ditch?
[Grunge guy looks out camera - he’s had an idea]
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[Cut to a 90s-style music video with MTV-style titles below telling us what the song and band are called]:
DOG IN A DITCH by Ditchdog
[Grunge guy sings “Daaawg in a diiiitch….”]
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11am:
Dog In A Ditch wins an MTV award so it’s time for another Avoiding Selling Out session
GRUNGE GUY [holding in MTV award]:
HUURRRR
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12pm
Working lunch while I craft effortfully scratchy lyric sheets for the album inlay
[Show him doing this]
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2pm:
Hit the studio to make an extremely inaccessible third record
[grunge guy in studio singing YOU’RE ALL GONNA HATE THIS while surrounded by white noise, accordions, etc]
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4pm:
That's gone platinum (sad face) so it’s time to have another Avoiding Selling Out session
GRUNGE GUY:
HUUUURRRR
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8pm :
After dinner me and the band hit the Staring Intensely Out Of Shot Gym to work on our stares
[Show the band in a gym, just sitting on a weights bench staring intensely out of shot instead of exercising]
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9pm:
One last Avoiding Selling Out session, Bovril, bed.
[He’s back in bed, holding his Bovril, looking intensely ahead, going HURRRR]
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