TV heads up - The Golden Age of Coach Travel

[chester drawers]

9PM, BBC4, Wednesday 5th January.

 

Presumably on iplayer shortly and doubtless repeated numerous times. Should be shite content. Followed by some caravans for Father Ted

[Shep Shepherd]

Sounds fun. I'll see if I can catch it on the iPlayer

[Justin Case]

Excellent programme, thanks for the heads up. Enough AEC Reliance/Burlingham Seagulls to keep even me happy, and lots of 50s Plaxton bodywork and Bristol MWs about if you keep your eyes open. Highlight though is a few minutes from the end where the happy family in a Singer Gazelle convertible almost take out an overtaking Rolls Royce Silver Wraith as they veer into the outside lane of a newly opened motorway

[chester drawers]

^ Was busy shouting CM5T at the TV when they started on the whole coaches were slow on the motorway thing. Then they showed it and I calmed down

 

That Rolls sequence was from a public information film & crops up quite a bit on BBC4 (slight understatement).

[Torsten2001]

A cracking watch!

[rml2345]

^ Was busy shouting CM5T at the TV when they started on the whole coaches were slow on the motorway thing. Then they showed it and I calmed down

 

 

I did that too! Cracking programme though, thanks for the heads up.

Weren't those Seagulls just gorgeous?

[Richard]

Here it is. Streaming only at the moment.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... the_Coach/

[chester drawers]

Follow up episode - The Modern Age of Coach Travel BBC4 9PM Wednesday 12th January.

 

Followed by all 3 episodes of The Secret Life of The Motorway (again).