In this episode we head to 1960 and meet Sylvia Watts, who is turning her attention to the process of learning to drive. Sylvia talks to us about:

• Getting stuck in a snow drift
• Being submerged underwater
• An unfortunate blackout

Continuing with the underwater theme we take an unauthorised trip in an amphibious car on the Shropshire Union Canal as a young Colin Parker back from college for the weekend in 1971, to the family home – a police house provided because his father is in the local constabulary. The weekend takes an unusual – and somewhat maritime – twist.

Finally for this episode, our automotive blackjack wheel comes to a stop in… 1975. Keith Bowden is living in Northampton and has been invited by close friends to take a trip to a villa in the south of France. This would be Keith’s first drive abroad. He has an MGB-GT and his friend Michael is in an MGB Roadster… off they go, blissfully unaware of the brush with authority they are soon to have at the Italian border…

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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