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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Episode 3 of 3

Archive film and newsreel footage chronicles Britain's fascination with its most important modes of mass passenger transport through the 20th century.

Throughout the 20th century, archive films and newsreel footage has chronicled Britain's enduring fascination with the nation's most important modes of mass passenger transport. This film shows how Britons responded to advances in transport technologies and the emergence of new automobiles, rail services and aircraft designs - each of which held out the possibility of travel to new, exciting and previously inaccessible destinations.

Featuring contributions from the cultural critic Jonathan Glancey and the transport historian Christian Wolmar, it celebrates the contribution that these different forms of transport made to the collective imagination of the nation, and shows how such developments as jet aircraft and the Channel tunnel opened up new horizons for successive generations of British people.

30 minutes

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Mon 1 Oct 2012 01:30

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Producer Jon Morrice
Executive Producer David Okuefuna
Director Jon Morrice

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