Hounds of Whitby (teaser)
Dark Satanic Malls (Trailer 1)
A film about the Thames Estuary by Michael Smith & Maxy Bianco. Music by Andrew Weatherall & Nina Walsh.
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“We create our technologies and thereafter they create us.” Drivetime 4 passes through the belly of the beast and looks at our symbiotic relationship with cars, machines that have liberated and enslaved us …
Here’s episode 3 of Drivetime, where the wheels start coming off, and life on the road begins to take its toll … existential Eddie Stobart crises and redemption among the Carnie Folk on Chris Rea’s Road to Hell …
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Still a load of shite on the telly? Here’s episode 2 of Drivetime, where our rapidly degenerating road trip hits Watling Street, the ancient prehistoric road that has always divided the North of England from the South. This is my favourite episode - hope you enjoy it too.
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Here’s episode 1 of Drivetime, my dystopian road trip round Britain, where we try to achieve escape velocity and get beyond the tangled knot of London. I’m going to stick all six episodes of the series up on this page, one episode a week over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out if you enjoyed it first time round and fancy watching it again …
“One of the most entertaining series of the year" The Guardian
“A hypnotic, lyrical odyssey" The Times
“An offbeat gem of a series” The Independent
“Excellent. Brilliant, laconic state-of-the-nation road trip… his off-the-cuff comments are as funny as most of telly’s scripted ones" The Observer
“Our poet of the road … a Kerouac for the homogenised generation” Time Out
Unreal City - my dysfunctional love-letter to London, a novel published by Faber & Faber around the time of the Olympics.