A303: Highway to the Sun,

[salymap]

Writer Tom Fort travels along the 92-mile-long-road from Basingstoke to Honiton, charting its
troubled history and visiting the historic sites through which it passes, including Stonehenge. I glanced at it, was hooked and all I can say is that Tom Fort did a good job, making an interesting and informative programme about a road I hardly know. BBC4 8pm on the 4th, repeated at 11.15pm next Wednesday.

[eighthobstruction]

Yes Salymap that's been on a couple of times before (Why do BBC3/4 not put R (repeat) on theit MANY repeats)....Still whenever you watch it: a nicely paced prog about ordinary/extraordinary places....Same man did a similar prog about the River Trent ....equally revealing in it's own way....

[Serial_Apologist]

Why do BBC3/4 not put R (repeat) on theit MANY repeats

I guess either because they haven't been shown on BBC4 before (regardless of how many repeats there've been on other channels); or because they have this image of a BBC4 viewer as someone who has just emerged, Sleeping Beauty-like, from a long, long kip.

[Anna]

I'd marked this down as a possible watch ( I find it does say repeat in the schedule), however I forgot and now I find it was first broadcast in May 2011 so cannot remember if I did see it first time. Not that I know the route until it gets to Stonehenge but I once went to Basingstoke for a wedding. Anyway, it's available until the 16th.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0116ly6

[salymap]

Sorry, itdoesn't say 'Repeat' at the bottomof the entry in R4. JustRepeated Wedn at 11,15pm{S} [subtitles}

Anyway it was new to me and confess I don't remember Tom Fort Someone on the boards will be interested in the references to Larkhill Barracks near Stonehenge.

[Anna]

Sorry, itdoesn't say 'Repeat' at the bottomof the entry in R4. JustRepeated Wedn at 11,15pm{S} [subtitles}
Anyway it was new to me and confess I don't remember Tom Fort

No, it only says Repeat in the online schedule saly, I think sometimes the RT is a bit lazy with this kind of information.... I wish I could remember the Church in Basingstoke where the wedding was, it was old and the graveyard was very interesting. The bride looked as if she was wearing a meringue (a pavlova?), the reception was in a village hall with a rather dire buffet and some dodgy rice salad. Gosh! Happy memories!

[salymap]

Her dress sounds more edible than the buffet Anna

[Gordon]

There is also a book based on the same journey:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/A303-Highway-Sun-Tom-Fort/dp/0857203282

[teamsaint]

Its a road I know all too well.
I would have represented this poorly thought out, under constructed, unfeasibly slow and annoying road rather differently......
But no doubt the film is a fine piece of Art !

[Anna]

Her dress sounds more edible than the buffet Anna

It's very difficult to wear bright white synthetic flounces whilst having a sallow complexion! <ooh, that was bitchy!) I am sure they are both still happily wed!