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In his new show, 50 Things About Us Mark Thomas examines how we have come to inhabit this divided wasteland that some of us call the United Kingdom.
He picks through the myths, facts and figures of our national identities to ask who do we think we are? It is about money, history, songs, gongs, wigs, unicorns, guns, bungs, sods of soil and rich f*ckers. And how we have so much feeling for such a hollow land.
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