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Shropshire's unique links to the Star Spangled Banner

The USA celebrates its 250th birthday, but did you know that people from Shropshire are responsible for the lyrics of the country's national anthem?

Francis Scott Key wrote them as a poem during the siege of Baltimore.

BBC Radio Shropshire's Mark Elliott has been at the Soldiers of Shropshire Museum at Shrewsbury Castle to speak to Richard Gough.

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