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William Shakespeare - borrowed from Stratford-upon-Avon, 23 miles away - will appear as a giant puppet, as will composer Edward Elgar, dictionary-maker Samuel Johnson and members of the Lunar Society, a group of 18th Century Birmingham scientists and industrialists who Knight says "invented pretty much everything to do with modern technology".