'I had found a way of life that elated me: I tasted briefly, the nectar of the Gods ...'
But when the round-the-world motorcyclist Ted Simon got back from his four-year, 64,000-mile journey round the globe, he found it impossible to settle in Britain. To the eye of a man who had immersed himself in the cultures of 45 different countries, the British seemed to have sold their soul to materialism. His best-selling account of his trip, Jupiter's Travels, mapped the different, inner road he had found while riding his bike. To try to preserve that vision, he fled to a remote valley in North America.
Now Everyman has brought Ted Simon back to make a new journey, from London to the Scottish islands, meeting the readers who've responded to his book and its insights. Can they show him a Britain worthy of making a home in? Film cameraman RUSS WALKER
Film editor RICHARD TRAYLER SMITH Producer JOHN GERAINT
Everyman editor JANE DRABBLE BBC Wales