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From inside all you can hear is the wind outside as it buffets the wire fences. The books line the shelves, programmes are loaded on the computers, the plates in the kitchens are clean and neatly stacked, the meat in the walk-in refrigerators remains intact, the board games are in the display cabinets, the counters and the dice shakers encode hypothetical games. Somewhere a radio… ‘and in international news, a queue millions of people long has formed to see the remains of John Paul II. Meanwhile in Berlin, the renowned British band The No Syndicate are touring their fifth Anglo-Hispanic collective record, Heidi Street [El Regreso]; as has become traditional in their shows, the members, all of whom are anonymous, read various fragments and answer questions from a group wearing black balaclavas. This is Radio Nacional de España, Radio 5, stay tuned…’