Transportation

Last Edited: 18-Oct-2019
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

See also
Trains/Railways


Date Title Cast Parameters
BBC Two
29-Apr-2000
One Foot in the Past -- Transport
Kirsty Wark, Joan Bakewell, Dan Cruickshank
Producer/Director    Ian Leese
MP4 VIDEO
29:03, 513264
30-Jan-2004 Snowbound Mark Coles
Producer Sally Spurring
28:04, 19740, S
05-Jul-2005 to
09-Jul-2005
High-Speed Link
  1. The Old Road
  2. Watling Street
  3. The Dover Coach Road
  4. The M20
  5. The Railways
Simon Evans
Producer Julian May
5 files
1:10:06, 64.1 MB, S
21-Aug-2013  Finding a Way: The Future of Navigation
Quentin Cooper
27:45, 26034, S

Aviation, Aerospace

It Is Rocket Science

Date Title Cast Parameters
BBC R2
31-Mar-1998

The Rise and Fall of the Airship
Roy Gosling
Producer: Bob Dickinson
58:57, 82903, m
01-Aug-1998
Flying Starts
Bill Frost of Saundisford

Patrick French
Producer: Jill Waters
27:49, 39134, S
15-Nov-2002
22-Nov-2002

Fly Me to the Runway
  1. The Early Years
  2. The Crowded Skies
Craig Doyle
Producer: Ivan Hewlett
27:51, 6530, m
27:50, 6525, m

17-Dec-2003
The Wright Centenary
James Tobin
produced by Susan Marling 

28:38, 20140, S
05-Jan-2004
Eurofighter: The Plane Truth
David Lomax
Produced by David Lewis

28:39, 20156, S
06-Jan-2004 
Shop Talk: Airbus A380
Lesley Curwen
Produced by Caroline Bailey

28:06, 19766, S
15-Mar-2006
22-Mar-2006

The X Factor
  1. Space Shuttle and Spaceship One
  2. Space Tourism

Jeff Hoffman
Produced by Martin Redfern

28:05, 26338, S
28:03, 26310, S

14-Jun-2006
In Living Memory – Skytrain
Freddie Laker’s rise and fall

Liz Carney
Produced by John Byrne

27:47, 26055, S
08-May-2008
It’s My Story -- Bravo November
A Boeing Chinook helicopter

John McDonald
Produced by Mark Berman

28:21, 26581, S
19-Jan-2011
Red Arrow Rookies
Produced by Mary Ward Lowry
27:38, 25914, S
07-May-2012
100 Years of the Royal Flying Corps
Peter and Dan Snow
Producer: Alyn Shipton

27:54, 26117, S
02-Apr-2014 Rockets in the Desert Richard Hollingham
Producer: John Watkins

27:34, 25802, S

Highways, Motor Vehicles
Date Title Cast Parameters
08-Dec-1998
Between the Lanes: 40 Years of the British Motorway
Bob Harris, Martin Carthy
Producer: Elaine Walker
56:36, 79598, S
08-Nov-2002
Red, Amber, Green!
Joe Kerr
Producer: Matthew Dodd
14:05, 3303, m
04-Sep-2003 to
18-Sep-2003
Freedom Pass
Alan Coren, Christopher Matthew
Producer: Paul Kobrak
3 files
1:24:05, 76.9 MB, S
13-Sep-2002
20-Sep-2002
India's Route 66
Mark Tully
Producer Kulwant Sidhu
28:08, 19789, S
27:57, 19658, S
26-May-2003
A Fork in the Road
Ken Wild, Gary O'Donoghue
Producer Laurence Grissell
27:19, 25618, S
12-Dec-2003
Look Both Ways
Lynne Truss
Producer: Erika Wright
14:10, 9972, S
23-Feb-2004
The Transport Cafe
Tony Liddington
Producer: Angela Hind
28:00, 26265, S
15-Mar-2004 to
19-Mar-2004
Route 66
  1. The Queen of Route 66
  2. Star City
  3. The Wheels on the Bus
  4. Tangos and Tenpins
  5. The Super Route
Paddy Maguire
Producer: Neil George
5 files
1:07:34, 61.8 MB, S
11-May-2004 to
08-Jun-2004
Routemasters
  1. The Blue and the Green
  2. The Roundabout
  3. White Line, Yellow Line
  4. Pedestrian Crossings
  5. The Road Hump
Joe Kerr
Producer: Matthew Dodd
5 files
1:09:10, 64.4 MB, S
19-Jul-2004
The Major and the Beetle
Peter Day
Producer: Neil Koenig
28:18, 26545, S
20-Aug-2004
Shifting Load
Kate Bellingham
Producer: Jonathan Fildes
28:12, 26438, S
28-Aug-2004
Hold On Tight, Please
Linda Smith
Producers Emma Wallace and Liz Jaynes
26:53, 18907. S
13-Jul-2005
Riding the Bullet
Steve Carver
Producer: Ekene Akalawu
28:52, 27066, S
12-Aug-2005
White Van Man Speaks
Rory Cellan-Jones
Producer: Beaty Rubens
27:39, 25927, S
19-Aug-2005
Lovely Rita
Ade Daramy
Producer: Anna Raphael
27:29, 25772, S
02-Jan-2006
Taxi!
Producer: Paul Kobrak
28:01, 26278, S
27-Feb-2008
Three Men in a Float
Ian Vince, Dan Kieran, Prasanth Visweswaran
Producer Kim Normanton
28:00, 26265, S
02-MAy-2008
Fixing a Hole
Sara Parker
Producer: Simon Elmes
28:02, 26287, S
16-Jun-2008
Hitting the Buffers 1 Transport
Gareth Mitchell, Richard Noble
Producer: Michelle Martin
28:03, 26312, S
09-Aug-2008
Meter Mad
Jenny Eclair
Producer: Josie Barnard
28:16, 26515, S
18-Aug-2008
City Messengers
Nhatt Attack
Producer: Katie Burningham
28:04, 26316, S
28-Oct-2008
M1 Magic
Juliet Gardiner
Producer: Josie Barnard
28:12, 26452, S
04-Nov-2009
M1: the Modernist Marvel
John Hegley
Producer: Emily Palmer
27:52, 26138, S
19-Jun-2010 to
10-Jul-2010
highlights
18-AUg-2010
Electric Ride
Peter Curran
Producer: Kevin Dawson
4 files
1:51:27, 102 MB, S
highlights
42:46, 40095, S
24-Dec-2010
Merry Christmas Morris Minor
Martin Wainwright
Producers: Janet Graves and Geoff Bird
27:42, 25980, S
03-Jan-2012
Thinking Streets
Angela Saini
27:39, 25936, S
04-May-2012
Dave Brown s New Highway Code
Dave Brown
Producer: Janet Graves
27:44, 26011, S
08-Oct-2012
Cheaper Than Walking
Andy Kershaw
Producer: Jeremy Grange
27:19, 25624, S
04-Feb-2013
Hard Shoulder, Soft Heart?
Jolyon Jenkins
27:24, 25699, S
05-Jun-2013 Malcolm Sayer - Aerodynamic Wizard Jonathan Glancey
Produced by Neil Rosser
27:41, 25966, S

Waterways, Maritime/Naval, Shipbuilding, Navigation
Date Title Cast Parameters
14-Oct-1998
The Loneliness of the Last Lighthouse Keeper
Producer Fay Sweet
27:45, 39036, S
03-Mar-2000
10-Mar-2000
17-Mar-2000
The Sail -- the foretopsail of HMS Victory Sharon Manitta, Peter Goodwin, Alastair
Durie, Linda Colley, Roy Porter
Producer Mary Price
28:01, 52536, m
27:57, 52407, m
28:01, 52534, m
03-Sep-2001
10-Sep-2001
Captain's Log
Simon Calder
Producer: Pamela Rutherford
28:05, 6583, m
27:46, 6512, S
23-Sep-2002 to
07-Oct-2002
The Three Voyages of Captain Cook
  1. Further Than Any Other Man
  2. Terra Australis Incognita
  3. This Melancholy Affair
Nigel Rigby
Producer: Mark Smalley
3 files
1:24:03, 48.1 MB, m
09-Oct-2004
A Ram for the Rebels
The story of John Holland and the Fenian Ram
Gerry Anderson
Produced by Peter Everett
28:15, 26496, S
10-Dec-2004
Henry’s People
The story of a 100-year old commercial sailing barge
Graham Eaton, Justin Ford
Produced by Geraldine Fitzgerald
14:09, 13270, S
14-Dec-2004
Tales from the Towpath
Canal travel
David Akinsanya
Produeced by Sue Davies
27:51, 26123, S
15-Jan-2005
22-Jan-2005
repeated in
 April 2005
All at Sea
  1. The Merchant Marine
  2. Wooden Walls
Libby Purves
Produced by Vanessa Harrison
28:05, 26340, S
28:03, 26305, S
25-Jul-2005 to
29-Jul-2005
Precious Cargo
  1. The Merchant Marine
  2. War Service
  3. Tanker and Coaster
  4. Remembering Youth
  5. Marriage
  6. Hazards
Dylan Winter
Produced by Frances Burns
14:10, 13289, S
13:52, 13004, S
13:57, 13089, S
13:52, 13016, S
13:42, 12854, S
22-Aug-2005 to
26-Aug-2005
Ballast
Stories about ballast in ships
  1. A Brixham sailing trawler
  2. A Cardiff church
  3. Human Ballast
  4. Rocks and plants
  5. Water ballast
Produced by Steve Groves
13:41, 12832, S
13:52, 13004, S
13:57, 13088, S
13:50, 12972, S
13:53, 13022, S
05-Sep-2005
The Fisheries Broadcast
CBC –North America’s longest running radio show
Sean Street
Produced by Sean Street and Julian May
28:04, 26319, S
24-Sep-2005
02-May-2006
The Great British Amphibian
50th anniversary of the Hovercraft
Peter Snow
Produced by Susan Marling
28:05, 26339, S
14-Jan-2006
Archive Hour – The Dream Boats
Sailors on the Cunard Line New York-Liverpool liners
Gerry Holsgrove

04-Mar-2006
People of the Abyss
  1. Sleeping with the Fish
  2. Bomber
  3. Hidden Depths
Andrew Smith
Produced by Mark Berman
28:09, 26393, S
28:06, 26348, S
28:13, 26467, S
14-Oct-2006
Archive Hour - The Saga of the Flying Enterprise
Ivan Howlett
Produced by Anglea Hind
 
30-Oct-2006
06-Nov-2006
On the Waterfront
Heather Payton
Producer: Jasper Bouverie
27:40, 25950, S
27:46, 26042, S
UK channel 5
2007
Titanic's Final Moments -- The True Story
narrated by David Harewood

AVI VIDEO
46:32, 476888
14-Apr-2007
Archive Hour – The Women Left on the Shore
Sam Riches
Produced by Bella Bannerman

 
15-May-2007
Gridlocked -- barge traffic
Gerry Northam
Producer Kathy Flower
37:00, 34692, S
27-Aug-2007
03-Sep-2007
The Price of Fun – the Cruise Ship Industry
Jolyon Jenkins
28:05, 26343, S
28:10, 26407, S
28-Dec-2007
Dancing Round the Mediterranean
Steve Carver
Produced by Lucy Lunt
28:17, 26531, S
07-Jan-2008
Pilot
Libby Purves
Produced by Simon Elmes
28:00, 26258, S
24-Sep-2008
01-Oct-2008
Lifeboats on the Thames
Horatio Clare
Produced by Julian May
28:02, 26285, S
28:15, 26490, S
23-Nov-2008
QE2: Portrait of an Ocean Liner
John and Rosie Hall
28:09, 26399, S
BBC Radio Scotland
08-Jul-2009
Clyde Shipbuilding
  1. Past Lives with Mark Stephen
  2. Clydebuilt Luxury (Part 1): Elaine C Smith on
    the QE2
  3. Professional Portrait - William Mitchell: 1943
    interview with former Clyde shipyard worker
  4. Clydebuilt Comics: Nicolas Parsons recalls some
    of the fine comedians who worked in the yards,
    including the Big Yin Billy Connolly
  5. Clydebuilt Luxury(Part 2): Elaine C Smith
    concludes her history of the QE2
  6. Song of the Clyde: A radio impression of
    the river
  7. Covert Confederates: Mark Stephen tells how
    the Clyde ship yards played a vital role in the
    American Cival War
  8. Requiem for the Clyde: Reflecting the turbulent
    rise and fall of Glasgow's shipbuilding industry


8 files
4:54:51, 134 MB, S

Sound of QE2 horn
00:06, 146, m
15-Apr-2009
Wrecked
Neil McCarthy
Producers Mark Burman,Neil McCarthy
27:59, 26238, S
22-Feb-2011
The Foghorn: A Celebration
Peter Curran
Producer: Sara Jane Hal
28:00, 26256, S