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Meter Mad

Jenny Eclair narrates a eulogy mourning the imminent death of the parking meter, compiled by Josie Barnard. Fifty years after the first parking meter was installed in London in 1958, new methods of paying parking charges by text threaten to make these potent articles of street furniture extinct.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Mar 201502:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Sat 9 Aug 200810:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Tue 30 Dec 200823:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Tue 3 Mar 201506:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 3 Mar 201513:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 3 Mar 201520:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 4 Mar 201502:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra