TV HEADS UP - BBC2 @ 9pm - India on Four Wheels

[RedSparrow]

Think I'll give it a watch.

 

From BBC website:

Justin Rowlatt and Anita Rani embark on an epic road trip around India to discover how a booming car industry is helping to fuel the country's massive economic growth.

 

Nearly two weeks into her journey in an Indian-made Mahindra 4x4, Anita has reached Mumbai, India's financial hub, and home to billionaires and Bollywood stars, as well as one of the world's biggest slums. As she continues on her discovery of modern India, Anita encounters some of the fastest and most dangerous roads in the country, Bangalore's night-life, and a rally champ who is on a personal mission to make India's drivers better and safer.

 

Meanwhile, Justin is nurturing his rusty Hindustan Ambassador along some far more bumpy roads as he meets rural farmers who are getting their first taste of motoring, sees the potential effects of fossil fuel use on one of the world's most precious and delicate ecosystems, and meets an ancient tribe, locked into a battle with industry over an aluminium-rich, sacred mountain.

 

The road-weary pair aim to meet up in the mega-port of Chennai to complete their journeys - if the cars make it that far.

[trigger]

Don't get your hopes up, last weeks wasn't great!

[meggersdog]

Camera footage of those accidents was though.

[RedSparrow]

Missed last week. Is it shit then?

[Pete-M]

Wilfred is on BBC3. Wilfred wins.

[RedSparrow]

Oh yeah, it's shit. 8 out of 10 Cats it is then.

 

Shame as it had potential.

[Cavcraft]

Quite enjoying it, it's gone a bit environ-mentalist in parts but good viewing all the same.

[ProgRocker]

Ooh Interesting - Maruti appear to still be making the 1980s Suzuki Alto.

 

Cannot believe that the Morris Oxford based Ambi is still being made. Although its declining market share of the Indian car market indicates that the end may be nigh for the erstwhile old bus.

[mattblack]

To be honest, I wasn't quite sure what message they were trying to get across this week... "India must indurialise to get people out of poverty... OMG THEY WANT TO BUILD FACTORIES/MINES ON PEOPLE'S LAND"

 

MAKE YOUR BLOODY MIND UP!

 

The bit where the woman presenter creamed her kecks over the fact that the G-Whizz had no exhaust pipe and so 'zero emmisions' had me shouting at the telly... and again it was nice to see a millionaire bollywood star cruising around in his Porsche in country that's receiving billions of pounds of OUR money...

[carlo]

I don't think I've ever watched a more smug and patronising piece of TV journalism in my life, with our two heroes gamely mucking in making 1p clay pots and directing traffic in Chennai. Could only have been made in Britain, and on the BBC probably as well. Loved the new Hindustan though.

[stuboy]

it past 2 hours away whilst at work