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The BBC Great Britons Churchill Memorial Sculpture, Song, is unveiled today in Westminster Hall, House of Commons, and goes on free public view from Thursday 10 February to Friday 25 March 2005.

Created by sculptor Paul de Monchaux, the memorial is the culmination of the BBC TWO series Great Britons, in which Sir Winston Churchill was voted overall winner by BBC viewers in a poll to find the greatest Briton of all time.

The medieval Westminster Hall is the oldest building in the Houses of Parliament complex and was the site of Churchill's ceremonial lying-in-state in 1965.

Song is the first contemporary sculpture ever to be displayed there.

Song is a free standing wooden tower, measuring 2.1 metres by 1.4 metres by 1.4 metres, weighing 2.25 tons, and made of 20 interlocking pieces of sawn green English oak heartwood.

Facsimiles of Churchill's typewritten speech drafts, which his staff referred to as 'hymn sheets', ar