First up. we travel back to 1978 as motorcycling fans across the nation are making the journey to the TT Races on the Isle of Man, where they will cheer for their heroes including Mike Hailwood, John Williams and Ian Richards. One such fan is John Henderson, who recounts his own two-wheeled adventure that took him through the night from Reading to catch the ferry from Liverpool the following morning.

Our second stop is1944 and somewhere on the Kent coast a V1 doodlebug has come down onto the beach, but it hasn’t exploded. It’s the job of bomb disposal officers to make it safe – and once the fuses have been removed, they hand it to the care of RAF fireman Ronald Packer to get the thing winched onto a low loader and escorted to Knightsbridge Barracks in London… with a ton of explosives still on board. Now 101 years old, Ronald recounts the challenges of finding somewhere in central London to park for the night… and the puzzled look from a government scientist when he demanded a receipt for the doodlebug the following morning.

Valerie Singleton presents Voices from the Road, an exciting project in which we will seek to create and build a fascinating audio archive capturing the widest possible range of motoring memories – starting way back in 1932. These stories could be individual accounts of road journeys… exciting adventures… and achievements from specific years…  as well as more noteworthy developments in road safety, vehicle technology and motoring law. The key thing is the people telling the stories... it’s all about real life on the road.

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