Britain's Best Drives

Britain's Best Drives

Travel 2009

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Britain's Best Drives is a six-part 2009 British television series in which Richard Wilson travels across the UK in reviewing the best driving roads from a motoring guide of the 1950s. In each episode he drives a different car of the period. There was also a seventh episode where Wilson learns how to drive a manual transmission car again.

Travel 2009

Starring Richard Wilson

EPISODE 1

North Yorkshire Moors

Actor Richard Wilson drives a classic Morris Minor Traveller from Scarborough to Whitby via the Yorkshire Moors.

29 min · 19 Feb 2009
EPISODE 2

North Wales

Actor Richard Wilson drives a Ford Zodiac along a circular route in Wales from Caernarfon that loops through some of Snowdonia's most sensational scenery.

29 min · 26 Feb 2009
EPISODE 3

Cornwall

Richard struggles to come to grips with a retro VW camper van as he drives along the Cornish coast from St. Ives to Lands End.

29 min · 5 Mar 2009
EPISODE 4

Lake District

Richard drives a sporty, convertible Triumph TR3A around some of the Lake District's most famous roads.

29 min · 12 Mar 2009
EPISODE 5

Richard Wilson Learns to Drive

In preparation for a motor journey around Britain, Richard Wilson is put through his paces as he learns how to use a stick shift again, having driven only automatics for the past 30 years.

29 min · 12 Mar 2009
EPISODE 6

The Wye Valley and Forest of Dean

Richard Wilson drives an Austin Cambridge to explore an area that claims to be the birthplace of British tourism and learn about life before the Severn Bridge.

29 min · 19 Mar 2009

Richard Wilson

Actor

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Britain's Best Drives

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Britain's Best Drives is a six-part 2009 British television series in which Richard Wilson travels across the UK in reviewing the best driving roads from a motoring guide of the 1950s. In each episode he drives a different car of the period. There was also a seventh episode where Wilson learns how to drive a manual transmission car again.

Information

Studio: BBC Four
Released: 2009

Languages

Subtitles: English (United Kingdom) (SDH)