A1: The Road Musical was first broadcast on Channel 4 on August 29th 2008. A half-hour, through-composed documentary, it tells the story (through song) of some of the wonderful people who live and work along the length of Britain's longest road.

All of the lyrics for the songs were based on lengthy interviews with the participants and the music was written especially to suit their talents.

Along the way we meet an ensemble of disgruntled drivers in North London, a Polish immigrant who is wondering if he should return to his homeland, a woman who was involved in a terrible accident on the road near Grantham and was aided by the kindness of a passing stranger, a choir of former Yorkshire miners, a pair of angry bikers, a young man grieving for his brother and a man who wants Berwick Upon Tweed to be handed back to the Scots.

All the stories are linked by Dave the lorry driver, who drives on the road at least three times a week.

Click on the titles below to hear clips from, and learn more about some of the sections in the film:
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