The Secret Life of the Motorway

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Falling in Love

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Emma Hindley

Clare Sillery

The Secret Life of the Motorway: Episode 1: Falling in Love

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From the building of the first motorway in Britain to the celebration of the most complex.

Documentary series celebrating Britain's motorways. This first part includes interviews with the engineers and builders who designed and created the first motorway.

Documentary series which celebrates the birth of motorways and hails the achievements of those behind the 'road revolution'. The first episode takes us from the excitement of the building of the first motorway in Britain, the M6 Preston By-pass, to the celebration of the most complex, Spaghetti Junction. 

With amazing archive and often hilarious public information films, we take a trip back to a time when not only were motorways exciting and new, but there was also no speed limit. Interviews with the engineers who designed them, the navvies who built them and the people who drove on them bring to life and celebrate an achievement that we now take so much for granted.

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Three-part documentary which celebrates the birth of motorways.

Three-part documentary which celebrates the birth of motorways and hails the achievements of those behind the 'road revolution'.

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