Paralympics Opening Ceremony 2012 - "Brave New World"
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- Channel 4 coverage of Paralympics Opening Ceremony on 29 August 2012 - Scene 5: "Brave New World."
Local school children and staff including Trinity School create a stadium-sized library. The giant book displays the text of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, accompanied by Philip Cobb, principal trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra, sings Handel's "Eternal Source of Light Divine.
Six Paralympians fly towards the celestial sphere. Miranda recites from Shakespeare's The Tempest, marvelling at "how beauteous mankind is".
Lyrics:
Eternal source of light divine
With double warmth Thy beams display
And with distinguished glory shine
To add a lustre to this day