19th October 1959: An AA spotter aircraft over the Broughton flyover. Picture credit: J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty Images

Motorway-mania

Britain in the age of the automobile

Podcast

Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart how motorways and bypasses changed getting about Britain from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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