Here's something for fans of a certain pedal-powered form of locomotion - a series of ten radio programmes about the social and cultural history of the bicycle. It started on Monday, so there are currently two programmes available to listen to, but as they're only being made available for a week after broadcast...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yfq82
It also features some notable riders, including (this selection from the first five minutes of Episode 1 alone):
- Edward Elgar (who developed a variety of routes across the Malvern Hills),
- Arthur Conan Doyle (who ensured Sherlock could identify lots of different types of bikes from their tyre treads),
- George Bernard Shaw (who was notorious for crashing!),
- H. G. Wells (who apparently wrote several novels featuring the bicycle) and
- Einstein ("Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance you must keep moving." - he also quipped he developed his theory of Special Relativity while riding...)
So several of our regular writers are in good company - including, strangely enough, the most prolific of the lot :)
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I'm amazed...
...that the Beeb hasn't contacted Angharad et al. to feature in this series.
After all, I guess that Angharad has written more words than the rest of that lot on a Bike theme, put together.
Positively Surprised
Bike Resources
Bike Resources
I've probably fallen off
one more often too. Okay, I confess, I'm into cycling. I really don't know how you figured it out. As for BBC radio, I haven't been on that for nearly twenty years and that was on a programme about transsexualism, and somehow I found myself as the official spokesperson for the community. The things I do...ho hum.
Angharad
Angharad