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04/05/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Dave Brown's New Highway Code

Comedian Dave Brown, member of the Mighty Boosh, on the development of the Highway Code.

Comedian Dave Brown, graphic designer and member of the Mighty Boosh, looks at the history and development of the Highway Code, Britain's best-selling and least-read book.

Comedian Dave Brown - member of the Mighty Boosh and a graphic Designer - looks at the history and development of the Highway Code as it becomes an app and e-book. It was first published as a guide ' to all courteous people' in 1931 and became part of the Driving Test three years later. As a boy, Dave would draw the roadsigns on his school book - it might even be the reason he became a graphic artist. On a road trip from London to Brighton in his vintage morris minor called Betty , he meets passengers and drivers to discuss the development of the Highway Code and modern driving manners. He takes cyclist and writer Zoe Williams on a spin to Oxshott, meets fellow graphic artist Nathan Lauder , and arrives in Brighton to chat to racing driver Ben Constandurous about the rules of the race track. Dave concludes by developing a new highway code of his own for modern drivers . 


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