Falling in Love

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Duration: 1 hour

Three-part documentary which celebrates the birth of motorways and hails the achievements of those behind the 'road revolution'. The first film takes us from the excitement of the building of the first motorway in Britain, the M6 Preston bypass, 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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Credits

Series Producer
Emma Hindley
Narrator
Philip Glenister
Director
Emma Hindley
Executive Producer
Clare Sillery

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