Michael Smith's Drivetime

All Episodes 2009
TV-14

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  • 2009-02-19T22:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Novelist and raconteur Michael Smith explores Britain's modern obsession with cars and driving, as well as seeking to understand the effects it has on our daily lives. Whilst travelling to all corners of the UK, he questions why we love them, what they say about us and whether there is a car out there that even a stubborn non-driver like him could one day fall in love with. The young Geordie kicks off his odyssey by abandoning the cosy familiarity of his beloved London, with its tangible roots and history, to thrust out into the anonymous suburbia that he has christened Drivetime Britain.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2009-02-19T22:00:00Z

1x01 Escape from London

Series Premiere

1x01 Escape from London

  • 2009-02-19T22:00:00Z30m

Michael Smith begins his odyssey by abandoning London to thrust out into suburbia.

1x02 Long Days on Watling Street

  • 2009-02-26T22:00:00Z30m

Smith travels along historic Watling Street, which has inspired both literature and art.

2009-03-05T22:00:00Z

1x03 Life on the Road

1x03 Life on the Road

  • 2009-03-05T22:00:00Z30m

Smith asks those who call the road their home how they survive a life of perpetual motion.

2009-03-12T22:00:00Z

1x04 Me and My Car

1x04 Me and My Car

  • 2009-03-12T22:00:00Z30m

Smith almost finds true love in the passenger seat of a vintage Jag, but it breaks down.

2009-03-19T22:00:00Z

1x05 Freedom

1x05 Freedom

  • 2009-03-19T22:00:00Z30m

Smith travels north of the border and finally finds a road to truly fall in love with.

2009-03-26T22:00:00Z

1x06 The Endless Road

1x06 The Endless Road

  • 2009-03-26T22:00:00Z30m

Michael Smith hitches the length of the UK, then drives through the Channel Tunnel.

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