The Rise and Fall of the Machine that made the Modern World

In conversation with Boris Starling.

Award winning feature writer and journalist, Bryan Appleyard, celebrates the immense drama and beauty of the car, the embodiment of genius and the limitless power of its complex systems.

More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility.

They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available – inspiring cinema, music and literature; they have need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge factories and global supply chains and have re-engineered the world.

He tells the story of the rise and fall of the incredible machine that has made the modern world what it is today.