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How does Big Ben cope with the change to summer time?

A team at the Palace of Westminster has to change 2,000 clocks around the Commons and the Lords this weekend.

Clockmaker Paul Roberson explains how the lights go out and the "hands whizz round" as Big Ben gets ready to lose an hour, and adapt to British Summer Time overnight.

He spoke to Andrew Neil about the job, after they looked at some archive film.

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