It's easy to forget when you live in a world of road humps, speed cameras, parking fines and perhaps reduced speed limits, that there was - and occasionally still is - a time when cars, driving and 'motoring' was something to enjoy.
More than anything, people are driven by nostalgia, so BBC4's current "The Joy of Motoring" series has been a great watch. It's featured a programme on "Great British Drives", one about the history of Ford's Dagenham plant and, tonight, promises a real star piece. "The history of the Future: Cars", at 9.30pm, examines cars from the '50s and '60s and the culture around this time, when "they hadn't quite yet worked out how to make cars fly and instead just made them look like they could".
Interested in the wider series, or don't have satellite or digital TV? Then check out the other shows via BBC4's website here, and (if you have a UK IP address) watch shows screened in the last seven days on the BBC's excellent iPlayer here.
"The History of the Future: Cars" is at 9.30pm, on BBC 4, tonight - Thursday 12th March.
Posted by Joseph Simpson on 12th March 2009
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