Self Drives: The Trabant

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Will Self embarks on a 700-mile road trip in a Trabant, the iconic East German car.

4 Extra Debut. Will Self embarks on a 700-mile road trip in a Trabant, the iconic East German car: starting in London. From 2016.

Will Self embarks on a 700 mile road trip in a Trabant, the iconic East German car.  

Starting in London, Will plans to drive all the way to where the car was manufactured in Zwickau, Germany.  

Will's travelling companion - and the instigator of this strange road trip - is his childhood friend Mike Shamash, a person of restricted growth. 

Mike's fascinated by all things East German and hopes that the Trabant will yield a more nuanced picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.  Will remains unconvinced.  

The pair have barely left Broadcasting House before it dawns on them that 700 miles is a long way to drive in this flimsy, noisy and cramped car.

Producer: Laurence Grissell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016.

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