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Michael Smith's Drivetime: Episode 6: The Endless Road

The Endless Road

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Episode 6: The Endless Road

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Michael Smith hitches the length of the UK, then drives through the Channel Tunnel.

Michael Smith explores Britain's obsession with driving. He waxes lyrical about hitching the length of the UK, and goes through the Channel Tunnel towards Burgundy.

Novelist and raconteur Michael Smith explores Britain's modern obsession with cars and driving.

Smith waxes lyrical on his new-found passion for travelling, if not for driving per se, having finally discovered a means of transport that suits him: hitching. Falling in and out of cars, driven almost exclusively by young, attractive, Europeans, he manages to travel the full length of the country. 

Eager for adventure, he recognises that the road can go on forever - even where Top Gear fails to reach - and drives through the airlocked Channel Tunnel into Europe. Smith heads for his beloved Burgundy, at peace with the purpose of the road and what it means to him.

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Michael Smith explores Britain's modern obsession with cars in a journey around the UK

Novelist and raconteur Michael Smith explores Britain's modern obsession with cars and driving, as well as seeking to understand the effects it has on our daily lives

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