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I'd love to know if people around the world watching the recent Olympic opening and closing ceremonies understood what was going on. There were times when I wasn't sure, so there must have been whole periods in each presentation when overseas viewers thought we were raving mad. Did they get the quirky Englishness? Did they fathom the references to the NHS, or to Great Ormond Street's connection with Peter Pan? Were they rocking along to the party atmosphere or, rather like the designated driv...