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• Song Name: Cornucopia Radio Podcast 47: The King Of Rome
• Artist: Anthony Atkin and Allison Glossop
• Album: Cornucopia Radio Podcast
• Year: 2014

A pigeon race as every fancier knows begins with a basket. But with a hundred different finish lines, each one a backyard loft. When does a pigeon race end? In 1913 Charlie Hudson entered one of his pigeons in a race from Rome to England. On the day of the big race, a storm blew in and a thousand birds were swept away and never seen again. Apart from one.